MOTEL AMERICANA

Famous - Ep #108

Room 202 of the Motel Americana. A struggling New Jersey filmmaker, hands six home-movie cameras to his friends and invites them to a strip-tease party at a seedy “by-the-hour” motel. The instructions are simple: film everything two hours previous to and during the party. The resulting document, intended to be Jeremy’s contribution to the Motel Americana feature film collection of shorts, is constructed of only the footage that was shot by the attendees. FAMOUS, a “found footage” documentary, unwittingly tells the story of how a seemingly harmless night of off-color fun abruptly takes a turn for the worst. An artifact of actual events, FAMOUS provides an incisive insight into our culture’s fetish for fame.