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Friday, October 4, 2013
Friday, October 4, 2013
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John Donne famously wrote, “No man is an island”. Jay Alvarez thinks otherwise. In his debut film, I Play With the Phrase Each Other, a gang of interconnected characters live in a self-imposed technological solitude, communicating only through mobile phone conversations. Alvarez says:
“This is an announcement of youngness. The movie screams our modern nausea, our florescent [sic] nightmare. It speaks for the first time all of the grinding lives spent on one end of electronic data transfer."
To create a film where the characters only communicate over the phone is a brave cinematic choice; a purposeful excision of interpersonal dynamics; a reduction of humanity to a chorus of tinny voices that bounce endlessly from antenna to antenna.
Monday, September 16, 2013
Monday, September 16, 2013
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Within us we have a multitude. As we meet different people in our lives we adjust our behaviour accordingly, shuffling various traits of our personalities like we might a deck of cards. Prevertere is about someone who's mastered this technique, a man whose personality is so variable that if you dig deep enough you might find that there's nothing there at all. This is Templeton (Terry Wayne), a man whose life, at least as far as we see it, is devoted entirely to procuring sex. But this isn't some testosterone soaked "whoo lads!" tribute to the pleasures of boning; Prevertere is about what happens when you construct such a convincing fake personality that who you really are begins to crumble.
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