Sundance Announces Its 2010 Non-Competition Lineup
NEW FRONTIER
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers / USA (Director and screenwriter: Tim Rutili)--A fortune teller lives and works in and old house crowded with ghosts. When a mysterious light appears in the woods, the ghosts realize they are trapped and begin to rebel. Cast: Angela Bettis. World Premiere
Double Take / Germany, Netherlands (Director: Johan Grimonprez)-- Alfred Hitchcock is unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. As television hijacks cinema, and Khrushchev debates Nixon, sexual politics quietly take off and Hitchcock himself blackmails housewives with brands they can't refuse. Cast: Mark Perry, Ron Burrage. North American Premiere
Memories of Overdevelopment / USA (Director and Screenwriter: Miguel Coyula)--Live action mixes with animation and newsreel footage of historical events to form a collage that emulates the way personal memory works for a misanthropic Cuban intellectual. An adaptation of a novel by Cuban author Edmundo Desnoes. Cast: Ron Blair. World Premiere
ODDSAC/ USA (Director: Daniel Perez)--An earthy, psychedelic experimental narrative infused with the band, Animal Collective's aural and musical sensibilities. World Premiere
Pepperminta / Austria, Switzerland (Director: Pipilotti Rist; Screenwriters: Pipilotti Rist, Chris Niemeyer)-- A magical and visually stunning contemporary fantasy about a young woman with an anarchist imagination. Together with Pepperminta's best friends, colors and strawberries, she sets out to fight for a more humane world. Cast: Ewelina Guzik North American Premiere.
Utopia in Four Movements / USA (Director: Sam Green)--In this "live documentary" Sam Green's live narration blends with Dave Cerf's soundtrack to explore the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the 21st century. World Premiere
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