"The same sorts of images pop up again and again. You've got, like, birds taking flight, and a shadowy man walking away, and kind of country-inflected music with a dark edge. Everything is sort of vague and fluid ... Lots of tiny text, too small for human eyes ... It kind of sets up everything and nothing."
"Zodiac Killer Project is not exactly a thrill-a-minute (humans are rarely seen on-screen), but it is an amusing deconstruction of something most of us watch."
"Yeah, it was good. Evan Peters!"
A planned documentary about Lyndon E. Lafferty and his belief about a Zodiac suspect lost its source rights, prompting a creative pivot. The filmmaker retools the project into a meta-documentary that exposes and satirizes repetitive true-crime imagery and conventions. The piece emphasizes visual tropes—birds, shadowy figures, tiny on-screen text—and minimizes on-screen human presence to foreground form over sensationalism. The work mixes pointed ethical critique of contemporary adaptations with evident fondness for the genre, acknowledging entertainment value even while calling out conformity and exploitative choices in popular true-crime media.
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