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Sundance Film Festival · 2006

Sundance Film Festival 2006

Frontier

The Festival’s Frontier section presents five films that represent new directions in filmmaking and Frontier Live, a live cinematic performance program - this year's was Our Second Date by artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, described as "a miniature movie set geared for live robotic cinema that puts the production, post-production, and exhibition of a film all in one room".

Utilising experimental and innovative aesthetic approaches, work in the Frontier category challenges and provokes.

Programme

5 films · 2 reviews

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Cinnamon

This experimental feature film provides a glimpse into the world of African American drag racing with the story that contrasts the consistent routine of a bank teller and mechanic as they prepare for the sport.

(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Kevin Jerome Everson; Writer: Kevin Jerome Everson; Stars: Ashley Bowles, John Bowles, Larry Bowles, Rhonda Bowles, Vincent Fowler, Raymond Mason, Erin Stewart)

A Darkness Swallowed

A personal investigation of cellular memory, a bio-meta-physical musical, A Darkness Swallowed is a meditation of the evanescent traces of memory and loss.

(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Betzy Bromberg; Writer: Betzy Bromber)

World Premiere

Old Joy

Review preview for Old Joy

Kurt does all the talking, which can be annoying, because he’s a boring guy. Mark is boring, too, but in a passive way.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
Two friends go camping in Oregon. They take the dog. They have a hot bath in the woods. They come home.

(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Kelly Reichardt; Writer: Jonathan Raymond, Kelly Reichardt; Stars: Daniel London, Will Oldham, Tanya Smith, Robin Rosenberg, Keri Moran, Autumn Campbell, Steve Doughton, Matt McCormick, Darren Prolsen, Jillian Wieseneck)

Full review

World Premiere

Pine Flat

An intimate portrait of a town’s children set in the stunning landscape of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Both an anthropological look at youth and a meditation on solitude, nature, socialization and the line between fact and fiction.

(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Sharon Lockhart; Writer: Sharon Lockhart)

World Premiere

Wild Tigers I Have Known

Review preview for Wild Tigers I Have Known

Rather too rarefied to begin with, Archer’s profound story soon shapes up into a reasonably gripping potboiler, beautifully shot and acutely tense.

Richard Mellor · 3 out of 5
Sexual awakening of a teenager who tries to engage with the object of his affections by posing as a woman on the phone.

(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Cam Archer; Writer: Cam Archer; Stars: Malcolm Stumpf, Patrick White, Fairuza Balk, Kim Dickens)

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World Premiere