The Fold
202626m
Documentary, Mystery
- Runtime
- 26m
- Genre
- Documentary
About
A visual and psychological investigation of the French psychiatrist and photographer Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault (1872–1934), who took thousands of images in Morocco of veiled Islamic women, and sometimes men, through which he sought to explore his psychoanalytic ideas about covering and fantasy. Through a digital re-imagining of his death — a suicide in front of a mirror —, followed by assessments of clinicians and academics, The Fold explores de Clérambault’s significance as a historical figure while also looking more broadly at the way we understand images. The interviews are filmed within a setting inspired by the house of mirrors in Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai (1947) and draw on the aesthetic of film noir, a style of cinema that commonly features a crime-centred narrative and morally ambiguous male protagonists.
Where to watch
Not available to stream in United States yet.
Details
- Director
- Hoda Afshar
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Jan 27, 2026
Cast
If you like this
Naqoyqatsi
20026.2
Fuck
20066.4
42 Up
19997.6
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
20007.8
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
20067.3
Finding Vivian Maier
20147.6
Heart of a Dog
20156.5
Room 237
20126.1
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
20227.1
Nothing Like a Dame
20186.8
Seduced and Abandoned
20136.2
Vampir Cuadecuc
19726.1
McQueen
20187.4
My Mom Jayne
20258.0
Cameraperson
20166.7
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me
20236.1
In the Realms of the Unreal
20047.2
Everybody’s Everything
20198.4
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
20187.1
National Gallery
20147.3
Similar
Apocalypsis
20185.6
Afloat
2017
Time Lapse
20146.5
FUCK TV
2019
Under the Cloud
20237.0
Rendez-vous chez Lacan
20115.6
Not Sure
2023
Blanket Song
2022
Cameramen at War
19435.8
HOT SPOTS: Martin Parr in the American South
2012
Benek Blues
20006.5
Helga Paris, Fotografin
2019
Los prohibidos
2019
Shutter
20085.5
El siglo de las luces
2017
A.
20256.8
Are You Really My Friend?
2017
The Work of Director Anton Corbijn
20057.8