In Search of the Edge

In Search of the Edge
Directed byScott Barrie
Produced byScott Barrie
Narrated byRobert Marsh
Production
company
Pancake Productions
Distributed byBullfrog Films
Release date
  • 1990 (1990)
Running time
26 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

In Search of the Edge is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Scott Barrie and released in 1990.[1] Conceived in part as an educational film on media literacy and critical thinking skills, the film is a mockumentary that aims to debunk flat earth theory by presenting it as if it were true, thus exposing its contradictions and absurdities.[1] It is based in part on the story of Andrea Barnes, a fictional scientist who purportedly disappeared in Antarctica while searching for the edge of the earth, and is claimed by the film's participants to have fallen off the edge.[1]

The film received a Genie Award nomination for Best Short Documentary at the 12th Genie Awards in 1991.[2]

  1. ^ a b c Sergio J. Aguilar Alcalá, "I Believe to Know: Scientific (Fake) Documentary and the Impasses of Scientific Knowledge". The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 63 No. 4 (2021). pp. 141–156. doi:10.19205/63.21.8.
  2. ^ "Genie candidates announced". Edmonton Journal, October 10, 1991.