November 19, 2015at Third Man Records
Doors 7pm, film at 8pm
$10 / $8 Belcourt Members
d. Bingham Bryant & Kyle Molzan
USA, 2014, 94min, HD Digital
Directors Bingham Bryant & Kyle Molzan in person for introduction and Q&A
A digital-pastoral drama of friendship, landscape and technology, "For the Plasma" begins as the story of two young women (Anabelle LeMieux and Rosalie Lowe) employed as forest-fire lookouts in Northern Maine, and ends in a hundred places at once. Along the way, the girls make financial predictions based on surveillance footage of the surrounding forest, the local lighthouse keeper and a pair of unusual investors interrupt their solitude, and a dreamlike portrait of small town America and contemporary life is revealed. "For the Plasma" is a film of minimal means but ambition, shot in Super 16mm and 4:3 with a small cast and crew, and scored by the great Japanese experimental composer, Keiichi Suzuki.
"[A] most beguiling, unclassifiable entry… a modest project of big ideas: about solitude, collaboration, conspiracy, magical thinking.” - ARTFORUM
**Nominated as one of the "Best Undistributed Films of 2014" by Film Comment, The New Yorker, Indiewire, & The Village Voice Film Poll
Wow…check this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0gu2QhV1dc A great little feature
Somehow the label ‘modern comedic mystery’ seems to fit when grappling with categorizing this film. The soundtrack has me ready to don pastel rayon disco gear…. is it a new classic like the indominable Rocky Horror Picture Show??? im getting the feeling there should be some art installation showing of this film to really appreciate it …say like 12 plasma screen televisions lined up side by side with groups of three each playing this film at 0.001 frame delay in staggers so that the interval of sound creates a heightened impact of emotion. Now that would impact some viewing response!!!