| Today! A Motion Picture Today! (clockwipe trailer 18) * * * |
| and introducing Today! Nocturnes  still from You Are Now Running On Reserve Battery Power, from Today! Nocturnes, 2011 An unidentified non-tagonist hazily shares a waking dream with her power-deprived personal computer. A desktop noir co-starring users of the Chatroulette.com™ site in a random parade of webcam field recordings. Like hitchhikers in an old-fashioned road movie, these strangers born of mouse clicks briefly inhabit a sequence of overlapping zones in a various states of undress and intoxication. This low battery neo-nocturne is a late-nite spin-off of the Today! episodics. * * *
The last film I saw had mandarin elegance and homespun fancy; a travelogue of clamdigging, Mayan seafarers hitching home on formica seahorses and making fun of effervescent containers and all matters postal. If this film pertains to you clap your hands and say yeah. |