King Arthur and His Magic Decoys

The scouts

Everyone expects a doc about a folk craftsman to be reverent and safe—Desrochers dodges that trap entirely by letting the absurdity of 'magic decoys' sit at the center without winking, which is exactly the kind of tonal weirdness consensus filmmaking murders.

A quietly formal study in the documentary tradition of artisan portraiture, where the whimsy emerges not from manipulation but from the subject's own mythology—Desrochers positions the camera as witness to a man who has already composed his own legend.

The real move here is the decision to photograph Arthur's decoys with the same formal attention as Arthur himself, collapsing the boundary between maker and made object in a way that transforms a 9-minute film about carving into something about presence and craft as a form of self-preservation.