Italian mockumentary The Gerber Syndrome gets UK bow

5 April 2013 10:23 AM, PDT | 24framespersecond.net | See recent 24FramesPerSecond news »

Think documentary and you could be forgiven for assuming you’re not going to be in for a thrill a minute, but Italian director Maximilien Dejoie took the genre in an entirely more horrific direction with his fake/mock docu drama, The Gerber Syndrome: il contagio. On April 23rd it will be released on iTunes in the UK, Ireland and another 45 countries, and for those in North America In the USA and Canada are luckier still because its already available on DVD. Documentaries just got a whole lot more interesting! Synopsis: A kiss. A handshake. A simple hug. We all know how easy it is to become infected by a virus. But, yet, this time it is not just any virus. We have now discovered the Gerber syndrome, a new pathology that does not look like your average flu. A television crew is making a documentary about this new pathology, »

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