INTRODUCING CIFF LOVE LETTERS: Valentines day has come early! We’ve thought a lot this year about how we can build connections between audience members and filmmakers within a virtual space. One of the hardest things about this year for filmmakers, is that they have not been able to forge spontaneous connections with audiences and hear from them directly. If you’ve seen a film you have loved, click HERE to write a love letter to a filmmaker!
A Shape of Things to Come will screen virtually from October 2-12, 2020.
Isolated environmentalist and homesteader Sundog lives off the grid surrounded by the vast Sonoran desert in this borderlands western. Far from civilization, he maintains a balance with the natural world around him: gardening, composting, and hunting for wild animals go hand-in-hand with smoking a toad’s psychedelic venom. Around his marooned shack, airplanes, helicopters, and border agents patrol the barren landscape, encroaching on his personal space. When new surveillance towers appear near his home, eco-terrorist hallucinations spawn to make space for this hybrid film’s creative choices. A SHAPE OF THINGS TO COMEs minimalist approach highlights the acoustic elements of the desert, as well as the all-encompassing dangers around it. Debut filmmakers Lisa Marie-Malloy, accompanied by veteran JP Sniadecki, anticipate the physical and psychological paradoxes of socially distancing, while revealing the possibilities of individualistic radical politics. (MG)
- Year2020
- Runtime79 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Spanish
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereNorth American Premiere
- DirectorLisa Marie Malloy, JP Sniadecki
- ProducerJP Sniadecki
- CinematographerLisa Marie Malloy, JP Sniadecki
- EditorLisa Marie Malloy, JP Sniadecki
INTRODUCING CIFF LOVE LETTERS: Valentines day has come early! We’ve thought a lot this year about how we can build connections between audience members and filmmakers within a virtual space. One of the hardest things about this year for filmmakers, is that they have not been able to forge spontaneous connections with audiences and hear from them directly. If you’ve seen a film you have loved, click HERE to write a love letter to a filmmaker!
A Shape of Things to Come will screen virtually from October 2-12, 2020.
Isolated environmentalist and homesteader Sundog lives off the grid surrounded by the vast Sonoran desert in this borderlands western. Far from civilization, he maintains a balance with the natural world around him: gardening, composting, and hunting for wild animals go hand-in-hand with smoking a toad’s psychedelic venom. Around his marooned shack, airplanes, helicopters, and border agents patrol the barren landscape, encroaching on his personal space. When new surveillance towers appear near his home, eco-terrorist hallucinations spawn to make space for this hybrid film’s creative choices. A SHAPE OF THINGS TO COMEs minimalist approach highlights the acoustic elements of the desert, as well as the all-encompassing dangers around it. Debut filmmakers Lisa Marie-Malloy, accompanied by veteran JP Sniadecki, anticipate the physical and psychological paradoxes of socially distancing, while revealing the possibilities of individualistic radical politics. (MG)
- Year2020
- Runtime79 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Spanish
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereNorth American Premiere
- DirectorLisa Marie Malloy, JP Sniadecki
- ProducerJP Sniadecki
- CinematographerLisa Marie Malloy, JP Sniadecki
- EditorLisa Marie Malloy, JP Sniadecki