Frames of Reference Volume 4 Program 2 Authenticating Features The notion of authenticity is put to the test in these works, which re-contextualize purportedly historical footage to question the assumptions and interpretations latent in the filmic text. Human Remains Jay Rosenblatt 29:27  1999 In Jay Rosenblatt's film Human Remains, newsreels of Mao, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, and Franco are presented with mock confessionals by the dictators themselves: they detail their quotidian realities as we witness performances staged for the camera. Ruins Jesse Lerner 1:27:31  1998 Jesse Lerner's Ruins, a hybrid film that blurs the line between fiction and documentary, melds culturally skewed anthropological films, staged scenes, and documentation about a Mexican antiquities forger to question not only the traditional reception and understanding of pre-Columbian culture, but also our very assumptions of historical truth as mediated through the camera lens.