This Super-8 feature by Boston-area filmmaker Luther Price is at once an essay on failure and a barely coherent mess, its violations of narrative grammar so consistent that they become a statement. An obscure, sub-Warhol melodrama, it intercuts scenes of a woman (Price in unconvincing drag) with scenes of various men (including Price) in disjunct locales, the characters linked only through editing. Shots are repeated throughout: a scissors slashing through space anticipates a murder. Ultimately the characters' isolation and zombielike behavior suggest an inability to connect; the film also reflects on the sadness and inevitable failure of drag. Also showing:
Porcelain Ribbon (1995) and
In Black and White (1994). 95 min.
By
Fred Camper