With benefits unique to digital video, the most obvious of which is low production cost, filmmakers like Thomas Vinterberg and Harmony Korine have paved the way for filmmakers who seem to be more artists than entertainers, more concerned with social exploration than box-office potential. Made while he was still a teen, the film played festivals around the world and gained him the reputation of a cinematic outsider. Bolton is no stranger to provocative cinema, but in his first feature, Eban and Charley, with its honest portrayal of an intergenerational gay relationship , he may well have directed one of the more controversial films of the year. The first thing you notice is the chill. The offices of Filmtecknarna, a Swedish animation studio, literally give you goosebumps.
Receptionists encourage visitors to drink tea or coffee.
Animators sport wool explosions around their necks. One could argue that the numerous computers filled with gigabytes of information and color palettes just need to stay cool. When temperatures reach degree zero, the irreverent ideas flow like lava. Though Zarem has publicly discounted the similarities, rumor has it he is indeed the model for People's Eli Wurman. But when the Shapiros accompanied him to remotest Papua New Guinea and began to discuss the possibility of returning him to the Amazonian jungles of Peru, where he hadn't been in over 45 years, we began to anticipate something really happening.