Smart, anxious and weirdly funny, the first feature from Toronto video artist Daniel Cockburn connects a series of scenarios that gradually begin to loop into each other.
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Village VoiceNick Schager
Village VoiceNick Schager
Overlapping story threads, voices, and imagery result in an atmosphere of disquieting psychological confusion.
Moments of insight flare like fireflies and disappear, whether from underfinancing or overambition is unclear. Either way, this maddening mind game is likely to be more enthusiastically received in philosophy classrooms than in the multiplex.
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Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
Some will find the film compelling, but underneath the riddles it's basically a self-important proclamation of "who the hell knows?"