From Surgipelago, the Beach Surgery encyclopedia
Documentaries (list)
This is a comprehensive listing of documentary films, mockumentaries, and archival projects engaging with the Beach Surgery franchise. Coverage includes theatrical releases, festival premieres, community broadcasts, and recovered or disputed media. Documentaries span adaptation scholarship, canon exegesis, devotional communities, and infrastructure archaeology (e.g., Dakar Frequency Archive, The Lagos Ledger Project).
Key categories: Adaptation studies documentaries—filmmaker essays on how adaptations resolve the glitch; community radio cycles—oral histories from Empty World gatherings and participatory rituals; architecture and psychogeography studies mapping Newcastle, Shanbudia, the radio igloo; lost media investigations recovering pre-2020 fragments and retro-causal apocrypha; canon conflicts exegesis filmed at symposia (e.g., The Twelve Versions Proceedings).
Major works include The Decade Without Voices (Documentary, 2041) (temporal anomaly; predates broadcast), The Makoko Tide (Documentary, 2023) (Lagos ecology and franchise ecology), The Voices Return—A Twenty-Month Radio Archive of Beach Surgery Listeners and the Communities It Made, and The Retro-Causal Record (Documentary, 2022). Many are incomplete, disputed, or redacted.