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Ever Since the World Ended (Calum Grant & Joshua Atesh Litle 2001)
A fake documentary about survivors after the world ended. I hesitate calling it a mockumentary, since for me that suggests that the documentary format is parodied or mocked in some way, which it is not here. Instead, the documentary style is used to great effect to suggest the hopelessness and bleak outlook for life after a virus has devastated the world. Beautiful images of an abandoned San Francisco mingles with close-ups of survivors trying to find a way of living under a new world order. As a documentary, however, the film lacks a strong narrative drive and that becomes the downfall of the film; at the end of the film only scattered events have occurred with no direct connection and the origins of the end of the world are not explored either, even as we are promised. For this reason, there is no emotional engagement left as the credits roll.
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