The Amazing Johnathan, a left-field Vegas entertainer with a rock ’n’ roll swagger, has been given just a few months to live. Years later, he’s self-medicating and still standing. Just as Johnathan announces his Farewell Tour, filmmaker Ben Berman plucks the fallen star from a virtual waiting room of potential documentary stars, but Johnathan proves less than compliant. Specializing in outré bits like popping out his own eyeball, Johnathan’s magic illusions are shot through with comedy; he also wrote the book on practical jokes. So how much of his relationship with Berman is on the level? The tour triggers a twisty-turny, cat-and-mouse, hall-of-mirrors, inside-out, funhouse game between subject and filmmaker. As the absurdities pile up, the documentary industry—opportunistic, exploitative, amoral—reveals itself as chasing its own tail. Nothing is as it seems. Nor is it otherwise. (PS) All screenings preceded by a provocation from Andrea Long Chu.