Deceptive Practice
Archive, Film
- Thursday, April 9, 2015, 7:30pm
- $5 students and members
$9 general - Club B10
What happens when documentary filmmakers — whose mission is to probe, explore, and reveal — take as their subject one of the world’s greatest living magicians, whose life and art are basically off limits to probing, exploration, and revelation? More than a decade in the making, Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay is the captivating result of this curious conundrum: a mesmerizing journey into the world of modern magic and the small circle of eccentrics who were its perpetual devotees.
About the Series
An arms-smuggling international super-criminal posing as a florist; a champion cyclist as clandestine Nazi resister; a master art forger who anonymously donates his handiwork to world-class museums; a magician who reveals his tricks (or does he?) — trust no one, good or bad, to be what they seem in our documentary series Deception!Stay for a Q+A with the filmmaker after each screening.