Empty Metal

Handling

“Empty Metal rewrites the rules of filmmaking.” -Matthew Monagle, The Austin Chronicle “Expresses a kind of irrevocable reckoning that has been centuries in the making.” -Pamela Cohn, Filmmaker Magazine Set in the abusive police state of the contemporary United States, EMPTY METAL follows five groups of characters, each emblematic of a different extreme political ideology, as they attempt insurrection against the status quo: a queer noise band is coerced into a dangerous assassination plot by a family of militant Native Americans who are aided by a Rastafarian computer hacker who is old friends with a Buddhist hermit whose son is a local militia leader. This tangled web of marginalized voices is as diverse and contradictory as the nation that spun it, but there is a common thread: all the characters teeter on the dull knife blade that is contemporary American politics, but they refuse to fall right or left. Instead, they lash out from the soul, and under the radar, in an attempt to achieve what their mainstream predecessors have yet to accomplish. And all the while, the drones are watching... Directed by Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer Written by Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer Produced by Steve Holmgren, Tiffany Sia, Andrew Fierberg, Héctor Velarde, Alex Lazarowich Edited by Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer Music by Leila Bordreuil, Doug Hock, Eliane Radigue, Bill Nace, Dreamcrusher, Christopher Latina Cast: PVSSYHEAVEN, Sam Richardson, Austin Sley Julian, Alex Esco, Wendel “Oba” Scott, Mazikeen LaGuerre, Irma LaGuerre, Jon Nandor, Paweł Wojtasik Festivals: Art of the Real Festival, IndieMemphis, Chicago Underground Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival,imagineNATIVE Festival, Afterimage Film Festival, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Cine Las Americas Film Festival, Eastern Oregon Film Festival, Images Festival, Tacoma Film Festival, FICUNAM Film Festival

Fakta

År

2018

Land

USA