It’s rare to see a short film these days that isn’t either wholly experimentally obtuse or so rigid that it scrambles to explain every little detail, so there’s a bit of joy in experiencing the raw atmosphere of Line Signal from John Panton and the Meat Bingo team. It features a woman who regularly runs through a wooded area where bizarre things start to happen. She encounters a few unusual sights just as personal elements of her life are coming to a head and her communication to the outside world via cell phone is cut off. First of all, it’s a beautiful film, boasting several sweeping shots of the countryside meant as much to disorient as to place us in the environment. If there’s a mascot for this film, it’s fog. Both visually and thematically. This is about as close as you can get to a story with zero exposition. What...
- 3/16/2015
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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