The Plagiarists
Comedy, Drama |
2019 |
1hr 41min
CAST: William Michael Payne, Eamon Monaghan, Lucy Kaminsky DIRECTOR: Peter Parlow
CAST: William Michael Payne, Eamon Monaghan, Lucy Kaminsky DIRECTOR: Peter Parlow
2019 Tacoma Film Festival Official Selection
The Plagiarists
Co-written by filmmakers James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir, The Plagiarists is at once a hilarious send-up of low-budget American indie filmmaking and a probing inquiry into race, relationships, and the social uncanny. A young novelist (Lucy Kaminsky) and her cinematographer boyfriend (Eamon Monaghan) are waylaid by a snowstorm on their way to visit a friend in upstate New York and are taken in by the kindly yet enigmatic Clip (Michael “Clip†Payne of Parliament Funkadelic), who puts them up for the night. But an accidental discovery months later recasts in an unnerving light what had seemed like an agreeable evening, stoking resentments both latent and not-so-latent. Exhilaratingly intelligent and distinctively shot on a vintage TV-news camera, The Plagiarists is a work whose provocations are inseparable from its pleasures.
Plays with the short film Galactivated.
Galactivated
US | 2018 | 25 min | Megan Brooks, Andrew Hasse
Two strangers with wildly divergent worldviews are trapped in a car together on a Craigslist ride-share through the Badlands of Utah.