The Sundance Film Festival takes place January 19-29 this month, and as always, has serving up an impossibly fascinating roster of shorts and features. While there are numerous treats sprinkled throughout the festival’s schedule, three selections in particular are worth noting for genre fans with a sense of adventure…
EXCISION
Dir: Richard Bates Jr.
81mins USA
Sundance page
Synopsis:
“Pauline isn’t your typical teen. She picks scabs, dissects road kill, and fantasizes about performing surgery on strangers. Her fascinations disturb her parents and her classmates. Pauline reserves special disdain for “the church” and her “therapist,” Reverend William, who, in Pauline’s mind, is in no position to judge, or indulge in, her psychosexual fantasies. No one understands Pauline except for Grace, her younger sister, who suffers from cystic fibrosis. An outcast at school and at home, Pauline decides she is ready to lose her virginity. . . and this is when the weirdness really begins.”
BOBBY YEAH
Dir: Robert Morgan
23min UK
Sundance page
Synopsis:
“Bobby Yeah is a petty thug who lightens his miserable existence by brawling and thieving stuff. One day, he steals the favorite pet of some very dangerous individual and finds himself in deep trouble.”
MOXIE
Dir: Stephen Irwin
6mins UK
Sundance page
Synopsis:
“A pyromaniac bear misses his mother.”
Mmm – as regards BOBBY YEAH, I don’t think I could watch a full length Claymation-style feature. I mean, I like TooL videos and all, but they’re only three minutes long.
Chick on the EXCISION poster is haaaawt, tho.