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	Movie (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		But the leader — a real loser — is so hungry for a fight he loses track of the group’s goals and opts instead for disrupting police commission meetings and the like, and the human drama is humorous in its believability.
		Nothing So Strange is a fascinating academic exercise, and has gotten some rave reviews as it makes the rounds in the independent film festival network.
		As quoted at the film’s onset, nothing is so strange as the truth.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=84607 (421 words)

	NOTHING SO STRANGE: The Film
		NOTHING SO STRANGE follows the efforts of an organized group of these skeptics, who call themselves Citizens for Truth, as they launch an aggressive independent investigation of the Gates assassination and in the process confront the LAPD, a hostile mainstream press, and the group's own internal squabbles.
		recreations of the various aspects of the crime, and almost unlimited access to the inner workings of Citizens for Truth, NOTHING SO STRANGE is ultimately both personal and political-an intimate portrait of average citizens on a search for the truth, as well as a revealing look at the last great crime of the 20th Century.
		NOTHING SO STRANGE has its world premiere on January 13, 2002 at the Slamdance 2002 Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
	www.nothingsostrange.com /the_film (390 words)

	Sleepy Brain: Biomorphic Horror » Bill Gates: Nothing So Strange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Footage from Nothing So Strange has been released as open source, and the film follows the efforts of the conspiracy/activist collective Citizens For Truth, who attempt to disclose the LAPD’s cover up of evidence associated with Gates’ assasination.
		Brian Flemming, director, writer and editor of Nothing So Strange (and co-founder of Slumdance, an alternative to sundance film festival), shot his actors at real events, such as the 2000 Democratic National Convention, and also produced supportive websites like billgatesisdead.com, citizensfortruth.org and the Gates Memorial webring.
		However, Nothing So Strange places itself in a difficult position with regards to suspending our disbelief because the basic premise, that Gates is dead – even within the context of a mock-documentary – is without credibility.
	www.sleepybrain.net /bill-gates-nothing-so-strange (1223 words)

	Nothing So Strange movies released in 2000s
		Nothing So Strange'''''Nothing So Strange''''' is an "independent filmindependent documentary" about a fictional assassination of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on December 2, 1999.
		Image:Nothing so strange cft dnc stage.jpgleft200px Another technique, perhaps the most amusing, is what Flemming has termed "reality-hacking"; the interaction of the actors in character with the real world.
		''Nothing So Strange'' has been declared an open-source project, and Flemming has made available via the Internet some of the footage (with plans to release the rest) used to create the movie, free for reuse.
	www.artbrain.co.uk /2000-films/nothing-so-strange.htm (1129 words)

	GUERRILLA INNOVATION: Nothing So Strange
		Nothing So Strange is a mockumentary (faux documentary) that follows the group Citizens for Truth in their search for the truth behind Bill Gates' assasination on December 2, 1999.
		One of the sites was supposedly made so believable that it fooled a Korean journalist and subsequently put the local stock market on hold until the mistake was discovered.
		Nothing So Strange has been hyped as an anti-Bill Gates film but the director is merely hijacking Gates' persona in order to tell a story about group organisation and internal conflicts.
	www.guerrilla-innovation.com /archives/2004/10/000219.php (191 words)

	GMD Studios - Nothing So Strange
		In the face of the events of 9/11, both the controversy of the premise and the importance of the deeper message became more pronounced.
		Supported by a complex and realistic world of websites (which were launched even as the film was shooting), "Nothing So Strange" became a laboratory in which we learned new approaches for engaging the press and fans and extending the story told in the film.
		Most of all, "Nothing So Strange" makes our list of favorite projects for the intense mixing of fiction and reality in every layer of the experience - from Flemming's expert positioning of actors in real life settings, to the fans who extended the story in ways that we would have ever imagined.
	www.gmdstudios.com /tin/nss (195 words)

	The Flick Filosopher \| Nothing So Strange
		Instead of attempting to produce an exhaustive look at the world after December 2, 1999, which would be impossible to pull off, Flemming brings the focus in tightly on one little advocacy group, Citizens for Truth, and their fight for answers.
		We're so used to seeing grainy enlarged photos of unidentifiable suspects and shaky video evidence dismissed by the authorities and CGI walkthroughs of crime scenes and tape recordings of police interrogations sent anonymously to independent investigators that perhaps we don't even know how to trust anymore.
		But Nothing So Strange is also a portrait of obsession, so that for every eerie piece of the puzzle of the "official version" unraveled by Citizens for Truth, there are head-
	www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/2004/nothingsostrange.shtml (620 words)

	Rediff Guide to the Net: Features: Who killed Bill Gates?
		Nothing So Strange's storyline is dramatic: 'When Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was shot dead on December 2, 1999, it was a tragedy that resonated throughout the world.
		Nothing So Strange follows the efforts of an organised group of these sceptics, who call themselves Citizens for Truth, as they launch an aggressive independent investigation of the Gates assassination and in the process confront the Los Angeles Police Department, a hostile mainstream press, and the group's own internal squabbles.'
		The brainchild of Los Angeles director and playwright Brian Flemming, Nothing So Strange is being produced by Orlando based GMD Studios, whose collaborations have included The Blair Witch Project.
	www.rediff.com /netguide/2002/jan/09bill.htm (699 words)

	DrudgeReportArchives.com © 2006
		Thus begins the controversial and eerily realistic faux documentary NOTHING SO STRANGE by writer/director Brian Flemming (Bat Boy: the Musical; Hang Your Dog in the Wind).
		NOTHING SO STRANGE, produced by GMD Studios in tandem with key production consultant Haxan Films (The Blair Witch Project), will premiere January 13 at Slamdance, the annual Park City, Utah, festival that has debuted independent films by such luminaries as Steven Soderbergh and Memento director Chistopher Nolan.
		NOTHING SO STRANGE documents the group's dreams and struggles in their David-versus-Goliath battle.
	drudgereportarchives.com /data/2001/12/31/20011231_175826_flash1.htm (367 words)

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		It is strange because it entails thinking about our life-time beliefs so many of which we feel, with certainty, to be true but which upon applying analytical thought are shown to be either false, half true, or unable to be verified or falsified.
		It is a strange world, also, because even when critical and analytical thinking are applied they entail processes of thought that the average person not only does not use but is incapable of using or even imagining.
		This is so because it is to the advantage of those who hold the reins of government and power to be able to use language as a regulatory device.
	mysite.verizon.net /vzepglv8/file01a.html (274 words)

	Strange Times
		Then, a couple summers ago, we were given a sneak preview of what was to come, when "Strange Times" (the song) was played for the very first time in concert.
		I'd been hearing it for a year or so in concert, and was afraid I really wouldn't like the album version.
		This song is so beautifully orchestra-heavy, I don't know if I could fully appreciate it live without a symphony.
	www.blueonyx.com /strangetimes (1702 words)

	Breaking Windows 2.0: Nothing So Strange DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tackling a topic about the assassination of a real person, specifically about the richest man in the world, takes guts, more so when that man is still alive.
		Numerous theories are presented, but the gaining the trust of the public and keeping themselves together may prove to be the downfall for the group.
		Wholly innovative and engrossing for a while, “Nothing So Strange” is commendable, but it seriously needed more focus.
	www.breakingwindows.com /new/2004/08/nothing_so_stra.php (971 words)

	Brian Flemming L15 Defense The Timeline, Bat Boy and Nothing So Strange as Denial at Torrents From MySpace
		Brian Flemming L15 Defense The Timeline, Bat Boy and Nothing So Strange as Denial
		Nothing So Strange and Bat Boy deal with alternate worlds and demand suspension of disbelief, but they aren’t hoaxes in any meaningful sense of the word.” From personal experience I know Brian is telling the truth.
		It’s not the director’s or the producer’s fault the parallel world was so damn convincing that a hacker can change a date and feed it to the media who doesn’t bother to fact check a story and started reporting Gates was dead.
	www.wayneporter.com /?p=103 (1123 words)

	"Nothing So Strange" Newsletter
		While "Nothing So Strange" has a pretty convincing Web universe, we are always very clear to date the Gates assassination as occurring on December 2, 1999.
		'Nothing So Strange' is in no way a 'mockumentary': the search is a straightforward affair, and it's completely credible, the people on screen being immersed in their obsession.
		While it isn't official yet, "Nothing So Strange" hopes soon to announce that it will be the first feature film to be released on the World Wide Web using the new BitPass micropayment technology.
	www.slumdance.com /blogs/brian_flemming/archives/000249.html (1251 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Pick of the Litter: 'Nothing So Strange': Recommended at SXSW Film 2002
		Clearly, the guy has a special feel for the odd and unusual, which extends to urban myths, pop-culture spoofs, and the tenuous boundaries between fact and fiction.
		Now, Flemming comes to South by Southwest with his new movie Nothing So Strange, which documents the aftermath of the assassination of Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates on December 2, 1999.
		Nothing So Strange screens at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown on March 8, 7:15pm; March 14, 3:30pm; and March 16, 2:15pm.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-03-08/screens_string29.html (500 words)

	TIME.com: Rappers & Knockers -- Jun. 30, 1958 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		NOTHING SO STRANGE (250 pp.)—Arthur Ford, with Margueritte Harmon Bro—Harper ($3.75).
		It seems to be getting harder all the time to raise spirits from the vasty deep, and if it were not for a few medium-rare souls, including Arthur Ford, magical goings-on would be largely confined to the hinterlands of Africa, the Caribbean islands and Tibet.
		At a loss to explain his strange precognition, he wrote Mother back in Florida to ask if there might be some insanity in the family.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,891963,00.html (641 words)

	Nothing So Strange (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Nothing So Strange is an excellent movie on numerous levels.
		On one level, its a straightforward documentary of one group’s attempt to investigate the assassination of Bill Gates in MacArthur Park.
		In our world, of course, none of this ever happened — Bill Gates was never killed — and so the movie is a rumination on political assasinations and police coverups.
	www.aaronsw.com /weblog/001102 (268 words)

	Macworld: News: Bill Gates assassination film makes QuickTime debut
		"Nothing So Strange," an independently produced faux-documentary chronicling the fictional assassination of Microsoft Corp. founder and Chairman Bill Gates, makes its Internet debut today at the Nothing So Strange Web site.
		Written by "Bat Boy: The Musical" co-writer Brian Flemming, "Nothing So Strange" was produced by Orlando, Fla.-based new media production firm GMD Studios.
		For indie film fans outside of Seattle wanting to take a look at Nothing So Strange, it'll cost you US$3 for the privilege; you can then grab a small progressive download (about 130MB).
	www.macworld.com /news/2003/10/24/nothing/index.php?pf=1 (268 words)

	Wired News: New Film: Enemy at the Bill Gates
		The film Nothing So Strange, which premiered at Slamdance on Sunday, imagines Gates' murder and its aftermath.
		So they built several sites that extensively detailed the crime and its aftermath.
		As a pseudo documentary, Nothing So Strange is pitch-perfect, more closely resembling Errol Morris' crime film The Thin Blue Line than a mockumentary like This Is Spinal Tap.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,49678,00.html?tw=wn20020115 (801 words)

	TIME.com: Of & For Hollywood -- Oct. 27, 1947 -- Page 1
		NOTHING So STRANGE (308 pp.)—James Hi fan—Little, Brown ($2.75).
		Nothing So Strange (the title derives from Daniel Webster: "There is nothing so powerful as truth—and often nothing so strange") is certainly alive to story values—in the movie sense—besides being the Literary Guild selection for November.
		Hollywood, which is said to be dickering for the novel, should be able to cast this machine-turned story in roughly five minutes.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,854860,00.html (507 words)

	Bill Gates docu-death film shows at Slamdance \| The Register
		Nothing So Strange, a feature-length independent film, examines the questions about the Gates 'assassination' and chronicles a campaign by Citizens for Truth, a fictional grassroots group who refuse to believe the results of the official investigation.
		The premise of the faux documentary, said to be a cross between Kevin Costner vehicle JFK and The Blair Witch Project, is that Gates was shot dead in Los Angeles on 2 December 1999 while attending a charity event.
		The title of the documentary was changed to Nothing So Strange to prevent confusion with a film called MacArthur Park which featured in Utah's Slamdance alternative film festival last year.
	www.theregister.co.uk /content/28/23552.html (547 words)

	Interview with Brian Flemming of Nothing So Strange
		EZ got a chance to ask director, producer and writer Brian Flemming a few questions on his project "Nothing So Strange" formerly known as " Mac Arthur Park".
		This is where we come in, The Zone wanted to know the how, the why, and the what, of the story of "Macarthur Park" known today as, "Nothing So Strange".
		The feature film NOTHING SO STRANGE uses digital video to mix fiction with reality, as in this scene where David James is escorted from a Los Angeles public meeting on the Rampart scandals by uniformed police officers.
	www.ez-entertainment.net /interview/flemmingview.htm (2290 words)

	The Movie Chicks - Interview - Brian Flemming
		But probably the most valuable experience was working in theatre, I did a musical called, "Bat Boy, The Musical", I co-wrote that off-Broadway last year.
		I forgot about it, all the way until we shot the ending scene, and then Lawrence stands up and says, "That's not 66%." I was amazed - that's Lawrence writing the film for me.
		Question: The scene re-enacting the coercing of the eyewitness was so good.
	www.themoviechicks.com /taos2002/mctnothingsostrange.html (589 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Nothing So Strange (2002)
		While I personally suspect he's wrong about the historical Jesus (Flemming argues he never existed), he's proven on his popular blog to be such an alert and insightful voice that I know well enough to listen with respect.
		The first I'd heard of Brian Flemming was a few years ago at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, where he screened an early version of Nothing So Strange, a brilliant, unique and highly entertaining examination of how, why and what we choose to believe.
		NOTHING SO STRANGE is pretty damn strange--quite the oddity, film-wise: a mockumentary of an event (the assassination of Bill Gates) that never happened.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=99935 (940 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Pick of the Litter: 'Nothing So Strange': Recommended at SXSW Film 2002
		Filmmaker Brian Flemming first popped into my consciousness during the winter of 1997, when I was judging films for Slamdance, the upstart film festival organized in response to Sundance.
		The goal while shooting this documentary-like fiction was "100% veracity," according to Flemming.
		The result is a genre-bending experience that lives up to Daniel Webster's quote: "There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."
	austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-03-08/screens_string29.html (500 words)

	Amazon.com: Nothing So Strange: DVD: David James (XVII),Douglas Glazer,Valerie Gordon,Jennifer Lauren,Laurie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Looking at the cover of the DVD people may get the idea that Nothing So Strange is some one joke gimmick on the death of Gates.
		Nothing So Strange is a film about a grassroots activist group called Citizens for Truth and their post assassination search into the truth behing the murder of Gates.
		It's not really about Bill Gates so much as the investigation into his "death." And it's as much about that investigation as it is about the personalities of the people doing the investigation--a very flawed grassroots group called Citizens for Truth.
	www.amazon.com /Nothing-Strange-David-James-XVII/dp/B0001CWH3K (1622 words)

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