2024 FESTIVALApr 10-20, 2024Lansing, MI
  • An Honest Liar
  • An Honest Liar
  • Victor

An Honest Liar

Renowned magician James ‘The Amazing’ Randi has been wowing audiences with his jaw-dropping illusions, escapes and sleight of hand for over 50 years. When he began seeing his cherished art form co-opted by all manner of con artists, he made it his mission to expose the simple tricks charlatans have borrowed from magicians to swindle the masses.

This entertaining film chronicles Randi’s best debunkings of faith healers, fortune tellers and psychics. It documents his rivalry with famed spoon-bender Uri Geller, whom Randi eventually foiled on a high-profile television appearance. Another target was evangelist Peter Popoff, whose tent-show miracles and audience mind-reading were exposed as chicanery when Randi revealed a recording of Popoff’s wife feeding him information through a radio-transmitter earpiece.

In telling Randi’s strange, funny and fascinating life story, the film shows how we are all vulnerable to deception – even, in a surprising twist, ‘The Amazing’ Randi himself.

An Honest Liar Trailer from Tyler Measom on Vimeo.

  • DIRECTOR
    Tyler Measom, Justin Weinstein
  • YEAR
    2014
  • RUNTIME
    90 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States
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Victor

Victor is a short film about imagination, solitude and the sometimes blindfolded quest for happiness. This whimsical journey follows Victor, a peculiar man who has some interesting ideas about how to make friends. With an optimistic plan and a few technological tricks, Victor shows that sometimes all you need is a little help to notice what’s been right in front of you all along.

  • DIRECTOR
    Chad Thompson
  • YEAR
    2014
  • RUNTIME
    7 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    USA
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