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Sundance Film Festival · 2013

Sundance Film Festival 2013

New Frontier

With media installations, multimedia performances, transmedia experiences, panels, films and more, New Frontier highlights work that celebrates experimentation and the expansion of cinema culture through the convergence of film, art, and new media technology. Installations this year are:
Cityscape 2095 (Artists: Yannick Jacquet, Mandril, Thomas Vaquié [AntiVJ])
Coral: Rekindling Venus (Artist: Lynette Wallworth)
E.M-bed.de/d, Datamosh, Augmented Real (Artist: Yung Jake)
Eyjafjallalokull (Artist: Joanie Lemercier [AntiVJ])
North of South, West of East (Artist: Meredith Danluck)
Pulse Index (Artist: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer)
What’s He Building in There? (Artists: Klip Collective)

Programme

6 films · 2 reviews

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Charlie Victor Romeo

An award-winning theatrical documentary derived entirely from 'Black Box' transcripts of six real-life major airline emergencies brought to the screen with cutting-edge stereoscopic 3D technology.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Robert Berger, Karlyn Michelson; Writer: Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, Irving Gregory; Stars: Patrick Daniels, Irving Gregory, Noel Dinneen, Sam Zuckerman, Debbie Troche, Nora Woolley)

Fat Shaker (Larzanandeye charbi )

Review preview for Fat Shaker

After it premiered at Sundance it was branded in fundamentalist quarters as "anti-Iranian" - what is certainly not in doubt is that it is "anti-viewer".

Amber Wilkinson · 1 out of 5
Story of a man and his abusive father.

(Country: Iran; Year: 2013; Director: Mohammad Shirvani; Writer: Mohammed Shirvani; Stars: Levon Haftvan, Maryam Palizban, Navid Mohammadzadeh)

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Halley

Alberto is dead and can no longer hide it. Before surrendering to his living death, he forms an unusual friendship with Luly, the manager of the 24-hour gym where he works as a night guard.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2013; Director: Sebastian Hofmann; Writer: Sebastian Hofmann, Julio Chavezmontes; Stars: Alberto Trujillo, Lourdes Trueba, Hugo Albores)

Interior. Leather Bar.

Review preview for Interior. Leather Bar.

This is a curious film, an important film and, in its oblique way, a very funny film.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
An attempt to recreate 40 minutes of gay bdsm-focused footage cut from William Friedkin's 1980 crime thriller Cruising.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Travis Mathews, James Franco; Writer: Travis Mathews; Stars: Val Lauren, James Franco, Travis Mathews, Christian Patrick, Brenden Gregory)

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The Meteor

Forty-something Pierre, his mother and his wife are linked by crime, guilt and loneliness. Like casualties of love and desire, they are dying to stick their heads above water and breathe the air of life.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2013; Director: François Delisle; Writer: François Delisle; Stars: Noémie Godin Vigneau, François Delisle, Laurent Lucas, Brigitte Pogonat, François Papineau, Andrée Lachapelle)

Wrong Cops

Imagine a Los Angeles where crime is so low that a bored cop sells drugs and harasses a teenager to pass the time. Shot in standalone chapters, as it is being financed, screened and released, watch the 45 minutes of crazy.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Quentin Dupieux; Stars: Mark Burnham, Marilyn Manson, Steve Little, Eric Wareheim)