Offer Egozy’s first feature FANTASTIC screens today
press screening Monday February 15
5:30 pm at CinemaxX 6
Other screenings :
Thursday February 18 at 7:00 pm at the Delphi
Friday February 19 at 7:30 pm at CinemaxX 4
Saturday February 20 at 2 :00 pm at Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg
Sunday February 21 at 1:45 pm at CineStar 8
Synopsis : An absurdist, pastel noir that documents events after an artist flees New York and winds up dead in a small town. A local sheriff, an old lover, and a distant friend try to sort out what’s happened and, in the process, confront the ways that their own needs and desires have created the mysteries that surround them.
"Bang!" – white on black. A man in a shiny velvet one-piece stomps through a sunny garden, enters a house and walks back out again. The swaying camera seems to share the sheriff's discomfort. Is the dead man in the house a certain Duncan Ross, or is it Hilary, a painter from New York who is pretending to be Duncan Ross?
Bakersfield, California. A telegram from the missing painter brings together Jane, a former lover of his, and Rhonda and Sten – the latter a collaborator? Sheriff Shaw attempts to uncover the potential conspiracy. So much to the story then, since the announcement soon comes that "The plot is now resolved and other parts of the movie can breathe easier."
Offer Egozy's remarkable debut was shot on 35 mm and strings together individual scenes into a rich tapestry, creating atmospheres that increasingly replace the plot of the detective story. As the criminal case drifts further into the background, the editing, acting, costumes, camerawork and props continually work towards flaunting the story’s artificiality, its synthetic nature, its obvious construction: a film noir deeply rooted in film history that continuously deconstructs and re-assembles itself.
Offer Egozy (1977, Israel) received a B.A. in Film Studies from Yale University and a law degree from University of California at Berkeley. As a filmmaker, he has made numerous experimental short films. Fantastic is his first feature film and was made with support of Panavision’s Emerging Filmmakers Production Grant. As an attorney, he has worked primarily on behalf of young people in the juvenile justice system. He is currently a doctoral student at NYU studying criminal justice reform.
