Back in 1998, at the Ifp Film Market, Thomas Ethan Harris, then the director of the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, strongly recommended an unknown film called Aberdeen. I followed his advice and was startled. Where most of the market films were by-the-book attempts to replicate commercial formulas, Aberdeen was a distinctive comic vision that followed none of the rules and managed to weave together wild abstraction and documentary observation as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
I assumed I'd hear about Aberdeen soon, but I never did. I don't know what adventures the film had after the Ifp market, but it never received a public screening, and no one but me (and the vigilant Mr. Harris, whom I never saw again) seemed to know anything about it. Good films often fall through the cracks, but this was an extreme case.
Somewhere over the years, the filmmakers,...
I assumed I'd hear about Aberdeen soon, but I never did. I don't know what adventures the film had after the Ifp market, but it never received a public screening, and no one but me (and the vigilant Mr. Harris, whom I never saw again) seemed to know anything about it. Good films often fall through the cracks, but this was an extreme case.
Somewhere over the years, the filmmakers,...
- 6/7/2011
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