The Perception of Moving Targets
I love when films embrace the medium's true nature, to show the movement of figures through time. This film, in an experimental fashion, is divided into four chapters, each with it's own distinct characters. The aural and visual nature of film is interrogated and pushed to reveal answers to how people instinctively make meaning with a medium that is strictly movement and sound. Filmic nature's frontier is explored in this film and I love any director who attempts to explore the mysterious yet known expanses of film.
2 Days in New York
I love comedies and this one sounds like a perfect formula for laughs. Chris Rock plays Mingus, the husband of Marion in New York with their 2 mulatto children and their cat. Marion's Santa-like father, her sister and her sister's crazed boyfriend drop in randomly and test Mingus and Marion's relationship. Chris Rock's hipster New York swag fills me with joy. He is the perfect candidate for such a role and his humor bound with the vintage outlook of this hipster middle class New Yorker mindset will be one to thouroughly enjoy.
California Solo
The story begins with a washed up musician from an old 90s rock band confronted with deportation due to his Scottish status and previous drug offenses. He is arrested for a DUI and the only way for him to remain in his home is for him to prove to the bureaucrats that he will cause great emotional turmoil to some relative or loved one. Old wounds will be licked far too late and festering injuries will soon crop up in the relationships soon to be rekindled in this dramatic account of a down and out musician.
About the Pink Sky
I love cynically joyous and humorous personalities, and this particular Japanese drama delivers. Izumi is an independent high school girl who rates the newspapers with usually bad reviews. She happens upon a wallet containing 300, 000 yen (4,000 U.S. dollars) and gives the money to her financially troubled fishing buddy. Her friends force her to return the wallet to the owner Sato, a wealthy classmate. Instead of returning the money, Izumi is asked to help one of Sato's friends in the hospital by creating a newspaper with only good reviews. The sarcasm that I'm sure will be found throughout the piece is something I look forward to. Especially when situated in the beautiful country of Japan.
Dr Breakfast
I am not one to watch too many animated independent films. They remind me too much of video games, which without the tactile experience,feels like some poorly done Pixar film, but with such an interesting and surrealist plot, I will make an exception. Also, it is animated drawings, a nice little break form CGI. I like the flat nature of moving pictures and not the bulbous eye sore of some CGI short films. The plot: A man's soul bursts from his eye, leaving a soul-less deflated eyeball of a human to eat breakfast with his talking deer companions. The soul then goes on a gluttonous rampage, eating anything and everything.
For more info. check out Sundance's website. Also, watch some films online.
https://www.sundance.org/festival/
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