The Unity of All Things
Friends with Benefits: An Anthology of Four New American Filmmakers
February 5 - 11, 2016
This sci-fi tone poem about research physicists preparing for the construction of a new particle accelerator on the U.S.-Mexico border, is a hypnotic portrait of desire, exquisitely shot on a mixture of Super 16 and Super 8, that is nothing short of cosmic.
Come early for free beer at the Film Center on 2/5 from 8–9pm.
A hypnotic and erotic sci-fi tone poem, exquisitely shot on a mixture of Super 16 and Super 8, The Unity of All Things tracks the metaphysical and psychosexual changes undergone by a group of research physicists as they prepare for the construction of a new particle accelerator on the U.S.-Mexico border. Meanwhile, the group leader’s two teenage sons (played by actresses, in drag) find themselves exploring an incestuous romance. Daniel Schmidt and Alexander Carver’s film is a singular audiovisual experience, an entrancing and grainy hallucination in which bodies, the sea, haunting drones, neon lights, and gargantuan scientific apparatuses (three real-life particle colliders provide the location for much of the film) commingle to yield a portrait of desire that is nothing short of cosmic.
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