Crossing the Great Sagrada

"In his film Crossing the Great Sagrada from 1924, Adrian Brunel narrates a grotesquely failed expedition. Brunel's subversive attacks on a travelogue's claim to depict reality in a documentary way is an early example of the biting humour of found footage film that results from the discrepancy between signifying and seeing, between the expectation, the delay and the non-occurrence of what is awaited." (Yann Beauvais)