digital projection

The Unity of All Things

Daniel Schmidt, Alexander Carver

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.

DIRECTOR
Daniel Schmidt, Alexander Carver
YEAR
2013
COUNTRY
USA / Switzerland / China
RUNTIME
98 minutes
LANGUAGE
English, Cantonese, and Spanish with English subtitles
FORMAT
digital projection

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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.

The Unity of All Things
The Unity of All Things
The Unity of All Things
The Unity of All Things
The Unity of All Things

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