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That’s what I’m searching for now. Not the freak. But the crack in the freak’s armour where a regular, boring, recognisable human being is trying to breathe. The survivalist who irons his shirts

In a world of clicky, fast-paced, morally outraged documentary filmmaking, Weird Weekends feels like a soothing balm. Louis never went in to mock. He went in to understand. He treated a UFO cult leader with the same sincerity he treated a hedge fund manager.