Straddling the grey area between found footage and faux documentary, The Atticus Institute purports to investigate the events leading to the sudden closure of an underfunded centre for parapsychological research in 1976, and the disappearance, maybe even demise, of its founder Dr Henry West (William Mapother). Present-day interviews with West's former colleagues and family as well as with the government personnel who became involved in the case are interspersed with footage documented at the time. The picture that emerges is of a group of young, committed 'fringe' scientists slowly building statistical evidence of paranormal abilities in their test subjects, despite setbacks from the occasional fraudster. Seeking their own miracle worker to rival the Soviet Union's Nina Kulagina, they eventually find one in Judith Winstead (Rya...[Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...]
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