A hearse shrouded in thick fog moves through the rain. Its journey passes through forests, grasslands, train tunnels, wooden fences, and undulating roads at a speed that could be described as hypnotic. Human figures inhabit eccentric spaces where gravity does not exist and scenes repeat themselves, alternating between climatic extremes (from rain to fire) and objects that spin falsely (between fragility and immortality). Cities fade away. It is a frozen and eternal world, without borders or time, like a kind of theme park built as a mausoleum of melancholy.

To create his trilogy in memory of filmmaker Mark LaPore, Phil Solomon borrowed from the Grand Theft Auto video game universe to explore the new millennium's "uncanny valley," described by J. Hoberman as "a simulation, a computer-generated illusion that hides the terrifying desert of the Real." These films should make you feel something.

> Digital screening introduced by Pablo Marín.

Program:
Rehearsals for Retirement (2007)
Last Days in a Lonely Place (2007)
Still Raining Still Dreaming (2008)

Language: No dialogue

Format: DCP