REVIEW: 'Upstream Color' Is Thoreau-ly Avant Garde − And Hypnotic

As mystifying as his 2004 sci-fier, Primer, albeit for entirely different reasons, Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color is a stimulating and hypnotic piece of experimental filmmaking. It’s also a poem about pigs, a meditation on orchids, a cerebral-spiritual love story, an intensely elliptical sight-and-sound collage, and perhaps a free-form re-interpretation of Thoreau’s Walden. Surely the most challenging dramatic entry at Sundance this year, this unapologetically avant-garde work regards conventional narrative as if it were a not-especially-interesting alien species; the mainstream will take no notice, but adventurous auds are in for a strange and imaginative trip. more »

WATCH: Trailer For 'Upstream Color,' From 'Primer' Writer-Director Shane Carruth

Shane Carruth has traversed back from the future to deliver us the first teaser trailer to his upcoming film Upstream Color.

The writer/director/star of 2004's Primer (and, eerily, NOTHING ELSE!!!!) is bringing his secretive new project to Sundance next month. (Between this and Zal Batmanglij's The East, the Sundance team should seriously consider rechristening the 2013 Fest as "Paranoid Futurists Hit The Slopes!")
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