I found a post on Infocult this morning that lead me to the youtube channel for a project called “Marble Hornets.” It’s worth watching.
“Marble Hornets” is the presumably fictionalized account of a filmmaker working through the archives of an old friend from film school. His friend, Alex, had been working on a film of the same name as a student project. From the backstory we learn that as Alex was filming something strange was happening in his life, and he gradually started to film himself. Alex subsequently dropped the project entirely and handed all of the footage over to the individual who is now looking through it and putting it up on youtube. The films seem to be an attempt to piece together what happened to Alex.
Intro:
The project itself is very low-low budget and borrows themes the ghost story genre: the archive with lacunae, an obsessive rendering and piecing together of found footage, a strange happening followed by an urge to document it…. But it is very well done for what it is.
The rest of the films (22 installments so far) are available on the youtube channel.
