Mockumentary

RTH10260 · #1

Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable (2017)

The fake story of the art found beneath the depths of the ocean from a 2,000 year old ship wreck. Damien Hirst and the crew recount the moments various discoveries are made, the myths and legends surrounding the find.

Director
Sam Hobkinson
Stars
Damien Hirst, Piotr Baumann, Andrew Whipp

Storyline

A journey through disbelief, accompanying great discovery of mystery artifacts hidden in the ocean near African coastline as more and more are recovered from a supposed 1st-century wreck of Greek ship Apistos "the Unbelievable". Recovery of those treasures is to be sponsored by a controversial artist Damian Hirst.—Anna

I had never heard of this

Hunt for the artefacts begun around 2009, expedition in 2011.
Treasures retrieved from the sea off of East Africa, Ethiopia.
Shipwreck must have occured 200AD - 300AD.
A historian believes he may have located a ancient story that may point to the origin of this find.

Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable |
Presented by HENI Talks

HENI Talks
16 Mar 202

Damien Hirst’s ‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’ reveals the fascinating story of the discovery and excavation of an ancient shipwreck, and the acclaimed exhibition that followed across the Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi in Venice from 9 April – 3 December 2017.

Credits:
‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’
Directed by Sam Hobkinson
Produced by Nicolas Kent / OFTV
© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved DACS 2023

1hr 22mins

RTH10260 · #2

‘The anger of it will linger for years’ – is The British Miracle Meat the most disturbing TV satire ever?
This flawlessly executed programme is one of the most audaciously satirical spoofs ever aired in the UK. It’s a full-blooded roar of a show that deserves an immediate watch

Stuart Heritage
Tue 25 Jul 2023 05.00 BST

The overwhelming likelihood is that you didn’t watch Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat on Channel 4 on Monday night. After all, why would you? It was trailed as nothing special; just another identikit food-based filler documentary, the likes of which have propped up pre-watershed TV schedules for years. There was nothing to separate it from, say, The Hidden World of Hospitality With Tom Kerridge (BBC Two, 8pm, Thursday), or The Secret World of Biscuits (Channel 4, 8pm, Friday), or even Supermarket Unwrapped, the show that directly preceded it.

Even if you did watch, you probably spent the first few minutes letting it wash over you. There was Gregg Wallace, marching through a factory with a hairnet on and hollering like the world’s friendliest asbo recipient, as he’s done countless times before. There was a deluge of statistics, plonked upfront to justify the next 30 minutes. Things were measured in football pitches for relatability. There was a superfluous secondary female presenter for diversity. All the tropes were present and correct. Nothing out of the ordinary at all.

So the question is this: if you watched Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat on Monday night, at which point did you realise that you were watching the new Ghostwatch?

In the hideous, horror-soaked ending, Wallace learns that the most delicious meat comes from children
Was it when Wallace mentioned that he was visiting a company that sold “engineered human meat” as a way to combat the cost of living crisis? When a scientist revealed that the meat had to be grown from slices of flesh that had been surgically harvested from actual humans? When Michel Roux Jr learned that he was about to become a cannibal and, instead of reacting with horror, became excited about its terroir?

Maybe that didn’t even sway you. You might have made it all the way to the hideous, horror-soaked ending, when Wallace learns that the most delicious meat comes from children, who we then see screaming and thrashing in pain as meat is extracted from their bodies.

Or maybe you spent the whole show half-watching as you scrolled on your phone, and never once twigged that Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat was actually one of the most audaciously satirical spoofs ever aired on British television. You didn’t realise you had watched a scripted black comedy about poor people being forced to sell their bodies for food, presented as a documentary and released by its broadcaster without so much as a wink.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... atire-ever

Volkonski · #3

A Modest Proposal........

RTH10260 · #4

cause I needed this helping hand ... A Modest Proposal ........