The September Tapes

A student of mine drew my attention to a new independent film entitled The September Tapes, which is at base a Blair Witch does Iraqistan faux documentary. In some of my other work, I talk about the survivalist motif and its relationship to post-9/11 pop culture. It appears The September Tapes occupy the liminal zone where military-themed reality TV, soldier blogs, embedded news, war film, and war video games meet. That it blasts the documentary format in much the same way Blair Witch did is illustrative of the "fictional times" that Michael Moore mentioned under hail of boos at the 2003 Oscars.