 | U.S.A.,
2003, 95 Minutes, color Director: Jeff Renfroe,
Marteinn Thorsson
Screenwriters - Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Thorsson
Executive
Producers - Chris Sievernich, Matt Milich, Zachary Matz, Andreas Schmid, Andreas
Grosch
Producers - Kyle Gates, Thomas Mai, RD Robb
Cinematographer - Chris
Soos
Editors - Troy Takaki, Daniel Sadler
Production Designer - Eggert
Ketilsson
Composer - Terry Michael Huud
Cast - Bruce Payne, Jeremy Sisto,
Deborah Unger, Udo Kier, Lance Henriksen Screening
Times
Sunday, Jan 18 2:30 PM Library Center Theatre
Monday, Jan 19 9:15
AM Eccles Center
Wednesday, Jan 21 4:00 PM Sundance Village
Thursday,
Jan 22 11:30 AM Library Center Theatre
Friday, Jan 23 8:30 PM Library Center
Theatre Here's what the Sundance Festival
says about One Point O: A Kafka-esque nightmare
set in the not-too-distant future, One Point O is that rare film that manages
to merge a highly stylized visual sense with an intellectually stimulating narrative.
Computer programmer Simon J.(Jeremy Sisto) wakes one morning to find a plain brown
package in his apartment. He unwraps it, but nothing is inside. Despite attempts
to secure his apartment, the mysterious packages keep appearing. While security
cameras watch his every move, Simon becomes increasingly paranoid and suspicious
of all the tenants in his building. When one of them turns up dead, Simon is pushed
even closer to the edge: He is plagued by hallucinations--and a craving for milk.
Frantically, he searches for answers about the mysterious forces taking over his
life. By blending the ordinary and the bizarre, social reality and private truth,
One Point O creates a surreal mise-en-scène that transports the audience into
the mental landscape of its sympathetic but disturbed protagonist. Amplifying
the feverish world with an intensely dripping palette of reds and greens, codirectors
Jeff Renfroe and Marteinn Thorsson draw incredibly nuanced performances from a
splendidly eclectic cast. One Point O is a deliciously scathing indictment of
corporate power that creates an eerily familiar world where moral choice and free
will are replaced by forced consumption. — Trevor Groth |
