The Show of Shows
Director:
Benedikt Erlingsson
The Show of Shows is directed by Benedikt Erlingsson, one of Iceland's most beloved theater directors, and was made in collaboration with the National Fairground Archive of Sheffield Univeristy. The director's feature debut, Of Horses and Men, played in TIFF 2014.
A captivating and often disquieting documentary about a century of vaudeville, circus shows, fairs and carnivals. The Show of Shows offers new archive footage with clowns, dancers, daring acrobats, freak shows and cruel scenes of animal and children exploitation in a fascinating portrait of a popular world in the 19th and early 20th centuries, according to „The Guardian”.
Director:
Benedikt Erlingsson
Country:
Islanda