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Rolling Stone Menu Chloe Sevigny, Eleanor Friedberger Star in ‘Slow Machine’ Trailer
Film partially depicts recording of Friedberger’s “Your Word”
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Slow Machine, a thriller film co-directed by Joe Denardo and Paul Felten that saw its premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam last year. The film also screened at the New York Film Festival last October.
Slow Machine centers on Stephanie (played by Hayes), a disillusioned actress whose tumultuous breakup with an intelligence agent, Gerard (Scott Shepherd), leads her to wanting an escape. Stephanie decides to hide inside a house where a band is recording an album, but her new environment comes with its own set of problems.
Writer-director P.S. Vinothraj’s
Pebbles is a film born out of a trauma that he was witness to. In 2015, his sister s husband threw her out of their house and she walked 13 kms to her mother’s house, carrying her two-year-old child.
Pebbles makes the husband walk and a young boy stalks him, taunting him with his silence and gaze that’s a mix of anger and raging indifference.
P.S. Vinothraj’s debut film, which won the prestigious Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in February this year, is a harsh, relentless, bare-foot trudge through a pale, malnourished land that seems stunned by the complete lack of water. It s dry to the bone and is slowly shedding itself, turning first to pebbles and then to sand.
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When Lebanese filmmaker Wissam Tanios heard his cousins, Jamil and Milad Khawam of Syria, were leaving for Europe in 2015, he reached for his camera as a way to cope. Documenting their departure was meant to stave off an encroaching sense of loss. Little did Tanios know he had begun working on his first feature film.
We Are From There is a documentary that is as much about preserving lifelong relationships as it is about dealing with loss and change. The film, showing at Cinema Akil in Dubai on Wednesday, took five years to make and stitches together recent footage with old family videos, even those taken by a mobile phone from the brothers journey. The end result is a multi-textural experience that goes against the grain of the stereotyped refugee narrative.