Paul The Secret Story of Olympias Satanic Sheriff (2012)

An essay documentary about Paul Ingram the former sheriff of Olympia Washington Paul was sent to jail in 1988 for sexually assaulting his daughters in satanic rituals He is the only person in the modern era to be accused of and confess to being a part of a satanic ritual abuse cult The film explores the complexities of the criminal case through primary police documents recordings of Pauls interrogations and speculative dramatizations finally probing at the unsettling symmetry between Pauls unstable memory and our own civic forgetfulness Through archival newscasts and a 16mm historical walking tour the film is ultimately concerned with the occult nature of memory and the very real monsters within ourselves