SHOWING:
9:15 pm, Sat. 9/23 @ Birmingham Museum of Art
directed by Joseph Swanberg
* Writer/actors Kevin Bewersdorf and Chris Wells, and actresses Tipper Newton and Greta Gerwig are scheduled to attend.
Alex, Tim, and Chris view the women in their lives through the dimensions of a computer screen or the lens of a camera-phone. They struggle to balance their online fantasies and addictions with the demands of real life. This up-to-the-second feature intimately explores masculinity in the new millennium, a time when young men are trying to decipher the mixed messages of modern relationships and technology.
Featuring a non-professional cast, video contributions from people all over the world, and original music by lead actor Kevin Bewersdorf, LOL offers an honest portrait of how the latest tools of communication can either help us click or turn us off.
Director Bio:
Joe Swanberg was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1981. He studied film production at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he developed an interest in emerging video technology and the creative possibilities of the Internet. He became an avid web designer in school, and did this to make money while he financed his first film, KISSING ON THE MOUTH (2005).
Screens with PARALEGAL, directed by Eric Lane (13 min. / USA). Miles is a paralegal, back in the office after his appendectomy. Rachel is a temp. And the moon... the moon is a strange place.
