John Wilson

After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, filmmaker John Wilson tries to use the same formula to sell a documentary about concrete.

A visit with the inimitable Mike Kuchar.

How to live a long life filled with regret.

In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City. Achieved through a repeating pattern of clustered high rises, “Magnasanti” exposes the hellish consequences of top-down civic design. In his new documentary, John Wilson explores how New York City is creeping closer and closer to realising this fictional metropolis.

Vimeo hires a struggling documentarian to document a festival he can't get into.

In this engrossing and hilarious documentary, Wilson puts it all on the line to investigate the televised performances of justice and New York (the latter by Los Angeles, of course).

A philosophical journey into the soul of commerce.

The first day of class at the New York Reality TV School.

A true crime concert doc about David Byrne and two escaped convicts.

A simple guide on how to end relationships before they begin.

A beginner’s guide to a lifetime of pleasure.

A walk from Brooklyn to Manhattan.

A hopeless tutorial on how to locate, obtain, and fall in love with bed bugs.

Prior to his big break with HBO’s How To With John Wilson, the filmmaker cut his teeth on the Internet, sharpening his inimitable brand of visual wit and unassuming wisdom. Visions du Réel presents a selection of shorts, including his first documentary made while in college, a rejected pilot episode for Viceland and other rarities!

Or a day in the life of Ahmed Khawaja. A tutorial that forgets to be a tutorial.

As the host of a long-running variety show passes away, his son is obligated to reunite a weathered cast of television performers and host the final episode. One man bands, retired cowboys and Peruvian daredevils adorn the stage as the new host protects his father's legacy from a bungling step dad. Caught somewhere in between variety and verite', People Parade is the story of a new generation paying testament to it's predecessor, as well as the narrowing chasm between reality and fiction.

A short documentary about the veiled lives of balloon fetishists.