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OPERATION
HOAX : phase
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" The show, as a whole, will be raw, fast paced, very "music video". We'll have witnesses who will have lived amazing moments, but all of these things will be absolutely true.. " Sophie Favier |
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The
setup :
So here we are, with a team of TV journalists who seemingly believe that Destroy-Escort is real (a joke web page about a service that rents alternative people for parties). A few phone calls later Destroy-Escort has a creation date, anecdotes to tell, and even customers. Everything is completely fake, of course... According to a well-established tactic, one of us makes the phone calls while the other one takes notes about what the first one says when answering the journalist's questions. Each time those notes are compiled with all our other notes to serve us as story support during our next phone calls. Eventually we'll realize that we were too cautious when we wrote down everything in order to make sure we were never contradicting ourselves: the other side never checked anything. Regardless, here's the summary of all the notes we zealously took. |
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as we hoped it doesn't take them more than a week to select the scenario
of Curt Ega's art exhibition opening. Note that the name Curt Ega was specifically chosen because it's an anagram of the word "trucage" (i.e. "faking" or "special effect" in French), so nobody can accuse us of having been deceitful! It's probably at that time that the most difficult part in this story took place: we had to find a phony artist, two fake punks, an adequate location, and of course extras for the exhibition opening. It's also at that time that the key phone calls we made at the very beginning came into play. In a show of brilliance worthy of the greatest one of them found us our first punk, and in a flash of genius another one found us the location. This is probably the best part of this whole hoax, that is to say the real human adventure it became among all the people who agreed to participate in it without really knowing each other and all of them with the same conniving spirit. We should emphasize that at that point in time it means keeping the thing completely secret for several months. |
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completely faked exhibit: Nativity by Curt Ega, at the Caves Saint-Sabin,
02/29/04 The phony artist is the one who's easiest to find. It obviously has to be Zefred, whom we have known for a long time through the internet, and whose culture and imposing presence seem ideal to us for that type of role. Not an artist or even an actor, he'll be one the pillars of our hoax. Phony artist with a name that's the anagram of "fake", artistic concepts beyond belief, and even faked art works (created in our living room by our children, aged 2, 6, and 8...). The location is found fairly easily as well. The superb Caves Saint-Sabin are graciously put at our disposal, something for which we'd like to thank again the owner, for his involvement with this hoax. Last we have to find two punks. The first one will be quite difficult to find and in the end it's the friend of a friend, Vivien Andasse, a professional actor, who will accept to play the part - which he will have to completely fake as far as he's concerned - pushing his dedication to extremes for us, since he agrees from the start to get a mohawk for the day of the shooting. This is unhoped-for for us: a real fake punk ! It's his enthusiasm that will get another friend of a friend, Benoit Puren, an actor and street artist, to go along with him and to go through the same aesthetic efforts for a part that's a bit less fake for him. Finally, we also have to acknowledge our extras, who for the most part where well known members of various alternative worlds. You'll find here the list of the jokers who were involved with our hoax.
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