SHOWING:
9 pm, Sat 9/23 @ Alabama Theatre
directed by James Bai
* Writer/director James Bai is scheduled to attend.
Set sometime "after the Decline", in a world of no-place, this Hitchcockian story of an android, painstakingly created in the likeness of his maker, is a Frankenstein fable for the millennium. The dark and eerie world of PUZZLEHEAD is one where betrayal, deception, and murder lurk just beyond each twist and turn of this meditative plot.
Special effects wizardry and sure handed direction drive this tour de force thriller in this unusual and very strange tale of love, passion, and the conflict between man and machine.
Director Bio:
Born in Columbia, Missouri and raised in southern California, James Bai studied business management as an undergraduate, while playing lead guitar in various rock bands. James attended Columbia University's School of Film, where his student films garnered numerous awards, screening both domestically and internationally. After graduation, he spent the next six months in Alaska, where he taught himself to play the piano by ear at a nearby church. James eventually resettled in Brooklyn where the his debut feature, PUZZLEHEAD, was produced.
Screens with MAGDA, directed by Chel White (6 min. / USA / Animation). A first love is corrupted as a man recalls his affair with a beautiful circus contortionist in this stop-motion animation of wooden manikins.
