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Apart from That

Director in Person
Directed by Randy Walker and Jennifer Shainin.
With Alice Ellingson, Kathleen McNearney, Kyle Conyers.
US, 2006, digital video, color, 120 min.
Copy source: Filmmakers

Randy Walker and Jennifer Shainin have created a work that, both in its form and content, is organized entirely differently from a conventional film. Their universe is a fragmented, cubistic one where characters’ identities won’t be reduced to cinematic sound bites and their relationships with each other keep shifting and changing. Characters move through a half-comical, half-absurd dreamscape of crowded gatherings, surprising parallels, uncanny linkages, and altered perspectives – as if the shape–shifting of the masks we wear and identities we assume on Halloween were able to liberate the magic in the mundane.

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