title: Fake Fruit Factory
text: # Fake Fruit Factory
  
  Fake Fruit Factory is a 1986 American experimental documentary film by Chick Strand.
  
  ## Summary
  
  The film documents young women making artificial fruits and vegetables in a small factory in Mexico with a gringo boss and his Mexican wife (latter owning the factory). The main focuses are the color, music and movement involved and the constant gossip about what the women think of men.
  
  ## Legacy
  
  It was selected to the United States National Film Registry in 2011 as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
  
  ## Availability
  
  Fake Fruit Factory appears on the DVD Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986.
  
  