Buzzard (NDNF)
New Directors/New Films 2014
March 19 - 30, 2014
Through a series of small, increasingly unhinged mutinies a slacker office temp sticks it to corporate America on behalf of the great unsung 99%. Screening with Person to Person (Dustin Guy Defa, 18m). Directors Joel Potrykus and Dustin Guy Defa and actor Joshua Burge in person for both screenings.
Directors Joel Potrykus and Dustin Guy Defa and actor Joshua Burge in person for both screenings.
Winner of the Locarno Film Festival’s 2012 Best Emerging Director award for his debut feature Ape, Joel Potrykus makes a brazen leap forward with his sophomore effort, Buzzard, a darkly comical look at a slacker office temp who gets by on cold SpaghettiOs while getting off on stealing refund checks from his employer. Filmed on a shoestring budget, often guerrilla-style, in the writer-director’s native Grand Rapids and Detroit, Michigan, Buzzard stars an unforgettable Joshua Burge as an angry young man who, through a series of small, increasingly unhinged mutinies, sticks it to corporate America on behalf of the great unsung 99%. Citing Alan Clarke, Jim Jarmusch, Michael Haneke, and Kelly Reichardt among his influences, Potrykus offers a barbaric yawp for truly independent regional American cinema.
Screening with:
Person to Person
Dustin Guy Defa | USA | 2014 | HDCam | 18m
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