Event

FROZEN MAY

aka FAGYOTT MÁJUS
dir. Péter Lichter, 2017
Hungary, 72m.

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Since 2008, the Imagine Science Film Festival has been plumbing the spaces between science and art for the most unique and inventive scientific fictions, surrealist documentaries, lab data aesthetics, and thought-provoking experimental film. For our tenth year, the theme of the festival is HYBRID, so were seeking those interstitial film forms more than ever. And weve saved some of the best for Spectacle.

1990, after the fall. Alone in the ambiguous tension and beauty of natural landscapes devoid of all but the remnants of civilization, a survivor seeks someone lost. This is genre as unsettled mood and creeping doubt, a horror script shot entirely in psychological landscape and desperate POV, perhaps a Carpenter script as reimagined by James Benning and Chantal Akerman. Whatever it is, Hunagarian experimental filmmaker Péter Lichters first feature exerts a strange power, drawing the viewer straight into its bleak but seductive forests of fog and shadow, seeking answers, with only a broken Commodore 64 as witness and narrator.