Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art (2020)
- Directed by
- Barry Avrich
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rated
- 10
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 85 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary examines a criminal case where a major art gallery sold fake paintings by famous artists. It focuses on how the forgery was discovered and the court proceedings that followed.
investigativetenseanalyticalrevealingformalmethodicalintriguing
What happens
Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art is a 2020 documentary by Barry Avrich about a notable art forgery court case involving Knoedler. It is one of two documentaries on the subject, alongside 2019's Driven to Abstraction. In 2020, Yahoo reported that Melbar Entertainment Group was working on a feature film adaption of the story. The film was slated to premiere at the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Following the festival's cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, it instead premiered on CBC Television as an episode of the special series Hot Docs at Home. Avrich published a book on the matter in 2025: The Devil Wars Rothko: Inside the Art Scandal that Rocked the World. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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