DC Premiere THE WHOLE WORLD IS A LIE

This June, DC/DOX, a cutting-edge film festival in Washington, DC dedicated to promoting documentary as a leading art form, proudly presents the DC premiere of  THE WHOLE WORLD IS A LIE.

A vérité chronicle of a legendary New York Method acting class is upended when the students and teacher revolt against the film. Both the project’s director and a student in the class, Charlie is drawn into the same “Method” he set out to document, blurring the line between observer and subject until the film becomes a study of performance, authorship, and the documentary form—where authenticity itself emerges as the most seductive act.

A next chapter in the canon of reflexive documentaries (a lineage that includes the film’s executive producer, Robert Greene), THE WHOLE WORLD IS A LIE refracts a single room into a prism of our era’s fixation on what is real. Tense, often funny, and spiritually searching, it is a portrait of power, ego, and emotional transformation, asking whether truth can be captured—or only created.

Join us on Saturday, June 13 at 8:30PM at Regal Gallery Place for a screening and post-screening discussion with director Charlie Birns.