Official Trailer for ‘Santacon’ Doc on the Origins of This Hated Event
by Alex Billington
November 10, 2025
Source: YouTube
“This is about taking what people think they want and giving them way too much of it.” You know it, you hate it, now learn the story behind it! An official trailer has debuted for a documentary called Santacon, indeed it is Santacon: The Documentary, revealing the origin story of this loathed event. “Today, Santacon is known as perhaps the single most hated event on the planet. A dreaded day in which tens of thousands of drunk idiots dress like Santa & invade countless cities around the world to live out their drunkest & most violent instincts. But it began as something else entirely: A piece of Dada street theater designed to shock people out of their everyday existence by creating a sense of awe & confusion. Those who started Santacon in the ’90s are the same people who started Burning Man and who served as the real-life inspiration for Fight Club & Project Mayhem. And today, they want nothing to do with their Christmas creation.” Now you’ve got my attention! Welcome to Santacon: an immersive doc about how great ideas can transform into something else entirely… and what it’s like to accept & live in a world you no longer understand. Yep I’m in.
Here’s the first official trailer (+ poster) for Seth Porges’ doc film Santacon, direct from YouTube:
🎅 From the mad weirdos behind Class Action Park comes a new world of chaos and possibility. The true story behind the world’s most hated event is not what you think. Come with us back in time to the 1990s and watch as a sea of Santas… climb the Brooklyn Bridge under the shadow of the Twin Towers… sing Christmas carols with Michael Moore… accuse Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk of being an undercover cop… face off against a phalanx of riot police who believe all the Santas to be terrorists… and engage in countless antics and shenanigans that will force you to question your very sense of reality, and of what is possible in this world. Santacon the doc is directed by acclaimed doc filmmaker Seth Porges, director of the docs Class Action Park, Dreambreaker: A Pickleball Story, and How to Rob a Bank previously, as well as other projects. Produced by Jake Denicola, Michael Garber, Seth Porges. This documentary is premiering soon at the 2025 DOC NYC Film Festival this month. For more info, visit the film’s official site. Interested?
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