The Plagiarists
New Directors/New Films 2019
March 27 - April 7, 2019
Co-written by experimental filmmakers James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir, The Plagiarists is at once a hilarious send-up of low-budget American indie filmmaking and a provocative inquiry into relationships, race panic, and the social uncanny. A New Directors/New Films 2019 selection. A KimStim release.
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Co-written by experimental filmmakers James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir, The Plagiarists is at once a hilarious send-up of low-budget American indie filmmaking and a probing inquiry into race, relationships, and the social uncanny. A young novelist (Lucy Kaminsky) and her cinematographer boyfriend (Eamon Monaghan) are waylaid by a snowstorm on their way to visit a friend in upstate New York and are taken in by the kindly yet enigmatic Clip (Michael “Clip” Payne of Parliament Funkadelic), who puts them up for the night. But an accidental discovery months later recasts in an unnerving light what had seemed like an agreeable evening, stoking resentments both latent and not-so-latent. Exhilaratingly intelligent and distinctively shot on a vintage TV-news camera, The Plagiarists is a work whose provocations are inseparable from its pleasures. A New Directors/New Films 2019 selection. A KimStim release.
Deserves to be the summer’s art house conversation starter.
—Glenn Kenny, The New York Times
A hilarious and slyly withering appraisal of our contemporary creative economy.
—Jordan Cronk, Film Comment
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