Description
‘I am going to have you read from a collection of my spam emails,’ the director explains, as she ushers actors from Craigslist one-by-one into an audition room. The actors and the director search together for the human voice inside the dialogue of the nonsensical and malicious emails. All is revealed to the viewer; The slate, light stands, teleprompter, a boom operator, film equipment litters the audition room floor, a cow pasture, a sunset, a strip club. Is this poetry or malware?
About the director: Marnie Ellen Hertzler is a video artist, animator, and filmmaker living and working in Baltimore, MD. Her films have screened at Locarno Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, MoMA, and more. In 2018, Marnie was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Influenced by her background in both psychology and fine arts, she creates films that act as cinematic platforms for the exploration of interpersonal relationships, the technology that defines us, and the inevitable end of it all. She is currently in post-production on her first feature film, Crestone.
Russian premiere