Young Programmers: F For Fake PG

Showroom Young Programmers present a special screening of Orson Welles’ F for Fake, one of the great latter-day works by the legendary director.

Collection of works brought together by director Orson Welles that serves to examine the idea of forgery and fakes. The film features the work of forger Elmyr de Hory who claims that most of the major collections of paintings in the world contain one of his fakes, and also Clifford Irving who wrote a fake autobiography of famous recluse Howard Hughes. There are stories of Welles' relationship with the granddaughter of a famous Yugoslav forger and personal reflections on the essence of artistic originality.

A tricksy film that truly blurs the line between documentary and fiction. Given the theme of forgery and Welles as magician, it’s hard for the audience to decipher what is real and what is indeed, F for Fake.