The only conspiracy documentary that admits the real conspiracy is us.
This is Not a Conspiracy Theory is a documentary about where conspiracy theories come from, what they reveal about all of us, and the real quest to discover the hidden forces that shape our lives. With trust in governments low and media fractured into an infinite number of contested opinions, conspiracy theories are an appealing way to understand the world. They project human intentions onto complex events to explain why things happen and assign blame.
Direction
Kirby Ferguson's Everything is a Remix visual language.
Editing
Archival collage that makes history feel uncomfortably current.
Director
Kirby Ferguson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 2020, the film accidentally predicted the pandemic's misinformation explosion—Ferguson started production years before QAnon went mainstream.
The title is a deliberate trap: viewers expecting validation of their favorite theory get dismantled instead. Ferguson borrowed this misdirection from Adam Curtis's documentary style.
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