Impolex @ The Boston Underground Film Festival

[Michael Bailey]

I seem to remember that you saw this, Dave?
recommended?  It sounds like it might be quite good.
I still haven't seen Pruefstand 7, speaking of derivative works.

Is it true that both those would fit the description of "fair usage"
of Pynchon's
intellectual property?
I wonder how the original author feels about them...

Dave Monroe wrote:
> MARCH 26 » 5:45p
> MARCH 31 » 5:30p
>
> NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE with ALEX ROSS PERRY
>
> 2009, USA, 75 min.
> Director/Screenwriter: Alex Ross Perry (in attendance)
> Cast: Riley O’Brien, Kate Lyn Sheil, Eugene Mirman, Ben Shapiro, Bruno
> Meyrick Jones
>
> View the Trailer
>
> Tyrone S., a U.S. army solider, wanders through an unidentified
> wilderness searching for missing rockets. Recurring characters
> (figments of his imagination? figures from his past?) show up
> o ffering advice and making small talk. An old lover reminds Tyrone of
> their life back home and what he’s left behind.
>
> A little context goes a long way toward understanding Alex Ross
> Perry’s enigmatic Impolex. Inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s
> Rainbow, the film tells the story, albeit obliquely, of Operation
> Paperclip, an actual World War II mission to locate undetonated German
> V2 rockets in the forests of Europe.
>
> But to say it’s just about that is too reductive. It’s about a lot of
> other things too: our connections to objects and to principles and to
> people, and how tenuous our grip on reality can be. And it manages to
> be about all these things without much ever happening. The plot of
> Impolex can only be discerned dimly, as if through a dream-like fog.
>
> I realize saying a film is virtually plotless won’t sound like a
> ringing endorsement to a lot of folks, but I can’t stress enough that
> Impolex is an extremely compelling and rewarding experience if you
> give yourself over to the film’s hallucinatory rhythms and deliberate
> pacing.
>
> Riley O’Brien delivers an somnambulistic performance as Tyrone. While
> he’s admittedly an aquired taste, it’s easy to see why Perry wrote the
> part for his unique charms. Kate Lyn Sheil deserves a special mention
> too. Toward the end of the film, she delivers a stunning nine-minute
> monologue in a single unbroken close-up. She has a penetratingly
> honest screen presence and it is a joy to watch her perform.
>
> In the vein of classic midnight movies like David Lynch’s Eraserhead,
> Impolex is a puzzling and darkly humorous tone poem that worms its way
> into your brain and will stick with you long after you leave the
> theatre.
>
> http://bostonunderground.org/schedule/impolex/
>



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