SO UNREAL

With her daring, experimental feature films PARIS WINDOW, LADYWORLD, PLEASE BABY PLEASE and GIVE ME PITY!, writer/director Amanda Kramer has subverted, well, just about everything, but most noticeably gender roles, cinema history, genre storytelling, the practice of nostalgia, the art of the musical, and traditional notions of romance, love and violence. Kramer’s films glitter and reverberate with a strange style all of their own, and now with the director’s new documentary SO UNREAL, a direct cinematic bridge is built between Kramer’s kinky oeuvre and the films that inspired it.

Both a history and philosophical exploration of cyberspace cinema from 1981-2001 (Kramer revs through clips of THE MATRIX, TRON, TETSUO, EXISTENZ, VIDEODROME, TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY and many more) overlaid with bone-dry, otherworldly narration from pop culture icon and occasional actress Debbie Harry, the glimmering, shimmering SO UNREAL examines cinema as a conduit for humanity’s fear, anxiety, elation, and obsession over the emerging technology at the end of the millennium.

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“Amanda Kramer’s passion for trash movies, neon lights and the music video aesthetics of the 1980s and 1990s are aggressively painted on screen in this cataclysmic collision of technology and humanity.” –– Tara Judah | THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE