A woman (Amy Seimetz) is abducted and hypnotized with an
material harvested from a specific flower. When she falls for a
man (Carruth), the two come to realize he may also have been
subjected to the same process. They search urgently for a place
of safety within each other and struggle to assemble the
fragments of their wrecked lives, unknowingly drawn into the life
cycle of a presence that permeates the microscopic world.
Review
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Did one of the best movies ever made just debut at Sundance?
--TIME Magazine
Having the movie wash over me was one of the most transcendent
experiences of my moviegoing life --AV Club
A dramatically obscure, technically brilliant experiment in
speculative fiction from Shane Carruth --Hollywood Reporter
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About the Actor
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Amy Seimetz first came to prominence producing and directing
shorts and independent films. Most notably associate producing
Barry Jenkins' Mecidine For Melancholy which was nominated for
Gotham and Independent Spirit Awards, after playing at South By
Southwest and the Toronto International Film Festival.
Andrew Sensenig - With an acting career that began as "Tommy
with the Tummy Ache" in the 2nd grade Thanksgiving play, Andrew's
journey was just getting started. The next two decades would be
filled with a multitude of award-winning theatrical productions,
hundreds of musical compositions and keyboard performances, and
professional training at institutions including The Circle in The
Square on Broadway, Millikin University, and North Carolina
School of the Arts. However, the "real world" had its calling and
propelled Andy into the world of computer consulting, investment
banking, philanthropic endeavors, and family man; until recently,
when the entertainment bug returned in a big way. Initially, he
worked as a composer and co-writer for "The Water Coolers", which
enjoyed an Off-Broadway run in 2002, and continues to tour the
world with theatrical and corporate performances. Andrew jumped
back into acting in 2006 with a sink-or-swim mentality. Hard
work, perseverance, and a passion for great projects have landed
leading and major supporting roles for Andy in well over 100
projects in just his first five years alone; ranging from
award-winning short and independent feature films, to major
studio features, network episodic television, and household-name
commercials. Playing Budweiser's tepid bartender in the Super
2011 commercial along side of Peter Stormare's villain still
has people singing "Tiny Dancer" around the world.
About the Director
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Carruth was born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He attended
Stephen F. Austin State University. Carruth wrote, directed,
produced, performed one of the two main roles, and composed the
music for his independent film Primer, which was honored at the
2004 Sundance Film Festival with the Grand Jury Prize and the
Alfred P. Sloan Award. Carruth, a former software engineer with
an undergraduate degree in mathematics, utilized his technical
knowledge on the project.
David Sullivan, one of the leads in Primer, cled on his
Twitter that Shane Carruth's next project, A Topiary, is in the
early stages of pre-production. Filmmaker Rian Johnson also
posted: Shane... has a mind-blowing sci-fi script. Let's all pray
to the movie-gods that he gets it made soon; In 2010, several
news sources reported that A Topiary is in the works, and that
the script is written. There is already a website for the movie
which, according to Carruth in an interview to io9, The website
for now is just a place mark as financing has yet to be
completed. I'm cautiously optimistic that this can happen soon
and couldn't be happier with the filmmakers that have committed
to the project so far.
Carruth was confirmed to have worked on the creation of the
time-travel sequences for filmmaker Rian Johnson's science
fiction film Looper.
On January 21st, 2013 Carruth premiered his film Upstream Color
at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic
Competition category. Carruth and Johnny Marshall won the U.S.
Dramatic Special Jury Award for Sound Design for the film. Keith
Kimbell wrote that it was the most anticipated (and most
difficult to describe) film in competition, and most critics
couldn't stop talking about it.
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