This week, BAM is partnering with the prestigious International Film Festival Rotterdam to present to American audiences the winners of IFFR’S Tiger competition (given to first- or second-time filmmakers).
Here is my review of Sun Spots, a haunting strange film from Hong Kong. It plays tonight at BAM, so if you live in the area, I highly suggest you check it out. These are films that will probably get limited to no distribution in the US, and Sun Spots definitely should be seen on the big screen. HD imagery that stuns, a chilling plot of violence (always off-screen), and footage you will not forget – Sun Spots is also so stripped of pace and drive that it can drive you BATSHIT. That seems to me to be part of the point. You MUST submit to it. If you don’t, you’ll crawl out of your skin. Submission is the key. It was for me, anyway. Go check out my review.
this sounds incredible. i wonder if it will ever get a Los Angeles screening???
Bren – it is DEFINITELY something to see. You want to throttle the director for boring the shit out of you, but then … weirdly … once you get past that, you get totally sucked in. Absolutely BEAUTIFUL looking film. With almost no cuts and no dialogue? So strange.
Keep an eye out for it! I know it’s making the festival circuit right now – was shown in Vancouver recently.