Gabriel Range, Death of a President

Following an illustrious lineage of provocative fake documentarians, Gabriel Range has generated intense debate with his fiction film that looks so real: Death of a President. A British veteran of real documentaries, Range considers the aftermath of a sniper's successful attack on current President George Walker Bush at a Chicago hotel in 2007, the FBI hunt for the killer, the trial, and its aftermath. Through ingenious editing and special effects Bush "plays" himself. For Range, the issues are broader than the notion of fictionally killing off a sitting US Commander-in-Chief.

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