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The Exquisite Corpse Project (2012)

The Exquisite Corpse Project poster
Directed by
Ben Popik
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
NR
Rating
3.8 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A director asks five comedy writers to each write a section of a movie script. They can only see the last five pages before writing their own part. The finished film mixes the resulting weird story with footage of the tense and funny writing process.

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What happens

The Exquisite Corpse Project is a 2012 crossover comedy/documentary from director Ben Popik and the comedy group Olde English. In the film, Popik challenges five comedy writers to each write a fifth of a film, with the constraint that each writer can only read the previous five pages of the script before writing their section. The final film is a combination of the movie written by the writers, and a documentary about the argument-provoking writing process. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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