The Internet is changing the nature of documentary filmmaking, exposing us to more movies, in an array of forms, than ever before. Mini-docs that are sensational (an unfortunate regurgitation on a morning news show), embarrassing (the Star Wars Kid) and provocative are finding mega-audiences as they fly through the Webosphere. But is an audience of one (at a time) fundamentally different than the shared pleasures of a darkened cinema? And when do we cross the line from viewer to voyeur? Find out on this wild ride, which includes Sam Green's elegiac Lot 63 Grave C; Justin Hall's soul-baring Darknight; Jesse Epstein's clever Wet Dreams & False Images; Aaron Koblin's dazzling Flight Patterns; the Peggy Ahwesh interview with Damian Lacedaemon from This Spartan Life; Jim Munroe's machinimasana Yoga Deathmatch; Andy Bobrow's laser-like send-up of stuffy historical documentaries, Old Negro Space Program, and Claude Lelouch's hair-raising, jaw-dropping Rendevous, plus a few surprise shorts. (DW)

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