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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Building on the promise of his hallucinogenic debut Go Down Death, filmmaker Aaron Schimberg delivers another brilliantly oddball, acerbically funny foray into gonzo surrealism. In a deft tragicomic performance, Jess Weixler (Teeth) plays Mabel, a movie star “slumming it” in an outré art-horror film being shot in a semi-abandoned hospital. Cast opposite her is Rosenthal (Under the Skin's Adam Pearson), a gentle-natured young man with a severe facial deformity. As their relationship evolves both on and offscreen, Schimberg raises provocative questions about cinematic notions of beauty, representation, and exploitation. Tod Browning crossed with Robert Altman crossed with David Lynch only begins to describe something this startlingly original and deeply felt
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Adam Pearson, Charlie Korsmo, Jess Weixler, Sari Lennick, Stephen Plunkett
Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 2019
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English