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OH, HI! | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Tied Up Tight and Toxic, OH, HI! is a Heartstruck Misery for the Situationship Generation.
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Sweet and Short: "Dear Dorothy" (Dir. Matthew McPherson)
In a haunting, resilient and sharp war short based on a true story, 'Dear Dorothy' gets behind allied lines, and writes the glory from the dirt.
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Ride Or Die | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
With Ride Or Die, Josalynn Smith transfuses grungy 90s dissatisfaction into the chassis of a beautifully shot modern feature, painted red, peeling to blue, then blossoming to a pale lilac.
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Twelve Moons | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
A gripping portrait of the depths you can sink to when you're grief stricken and your husband truly hates you.
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Fior Di Latte | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Fior Di Latte punctures wacky with doses of real, and Charlotte Ercoli uses the madness like an easel to paint a woefully accurate portrait of addiction.
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Twinless | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Twinless is slightly sorta like Vertigo, on poppers, running on the energy of an off the walls 2000s movie laced with the spirit of a Hitchcockian thriller.
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Esta Isla is A Grueling Love Letter to Puerto Rico | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Esta Isla films in the dialect of Tropical Realism, austere and surreal, a bit verité: it makes no attempts at hiding because it holds itself plain to see.
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Ancestral Visions of the Future | OBSCURAE @ SXSW London
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese wants to talk in feeling - if you're ready to listen.
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Plainclothes: All the things we’re not allowed to have | OBSCURAE @ SXSW London
With a grounded plot and beautifully integrated experimental elements, Carmen Emmi spins gold.
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Paradise Records | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Paradise Records is of a lost artifact type, when punky, punchy storytelling was the rage. It's tone more flaccid in spaces, its pace bogged, trips on jokes better off left on the cutting room floor, yet the heart is there and the ride lively.
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Love and Rage: Munroe Bergdorf | OBSCURAE @ SXSW London
A tender and compassionate profile of one of the most influential trans voices in the UK, who has been so disrespected by her country, and yet has continued to thrive on the global stage.
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Deep Cover: A New Genre is born | OBSCURAE @ SXSW London
A wild and surprising (and heavily British) action comedy of the absurd from Director Tom Kingsley is a treat - and made on a budget that is surely a recession indicator.