Forum of Independents - Competition 2009 / Everything Strange and New / USA 2008
Disappointed by life, Wayne personifies the flip side of the American dream. His everyday life is so grueling that it doesn’t even leave him room to find a way out – but in this he is far from alone. This introverted but provocative movie was presented at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
We can’t say that Wayne’s life is over, yet neither can we shake the feeling that he has nothing left to fight for. Everyday life brings him nothing but disappointment, something that could be generalized as a social diagnosis. Wayne would like to wake up from his "American nightmare,” but he finds it impossible. The movie ranks among those works which thwart the illusion that the main purpose of cinematography is to provide a means of escape. In harmony with its bleak tone, the film, which focuses on average characters, manages to look beyond the banality of daily life. Explicit dramatic action isn’t necessary in that the protagonists have fallen into a lethargy that even disastrous events can’t pull them out of. Detachment from the varied superficial dramas that dominate this introverted and disturbing film gradually leads the viewer to the same position that plagues the protagonist – and thousands of other actual people who have surrendered to the same dream.
84 min / Color, HD CAM
Director Frazer Bradshaw
/ Screenplay Frazer Bradshaw
/ Dir. of Photography Frazer Bradshaw
/ Music Kent Sparling, Dan Plonsey
/ Editor Frazer Bradshaw
/ Producer Laura Francia, A.D. Liano
/ Production Lucky Hat Entertainment
/ Cast Jerry McDaniel, Luis Saguar, Beth Lisick
/ Contact Lucky Hat Entertainment
www: www.everythingstrangeandnew.com
Frazer Bradshaw began as a visual artist and also studied experimental music. Short structuralist films which screened at festivals around the world eventually gave way to narrative features, but even here the director blurs the border between experimentation and classic film fiction. As a director of photography Bradshaw contributed to dozens of independent film projects. Everything Strange and New, which took the FIPRESCI Prize at the San Francisco film festival, is Bradshaw’s first foray into feature filmmaking.
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