FOR THE PLASMA
For the Plasma
Bingham Bryant & Kyle Molzan, 2016
Catalog No.: FTF-064
Length: 94 minutes
For the Plasma begins in a remote house on the coast of Maine, where a young woman named Helen has found work as a forest-fire lookout responsible for monitoring the nearby woodland. While analyzing CCTV footage of the surrounding forest, she discovers that by reconfiguring her perception she can predict shifts in global financial markets. But when her inquisitive friend Charlie arrives at the house, Helen finds herself challenged by her new colleague, and the two girls’ relationship begins to unravel. From this cryptic premise grows a lo-fi mind-bender of intimate scale and startling relevance, flirting with genre conventions even as it subverts them. To the strains of an electronic score by Keiichi Suzuki (Zatoichi, Outrage), For the Plasma juxtaposes pastoral imagery with surveillance technology, its every shade and shadow captured in gorgeous 16mm.
Featuring: Anabelle LeMieux, Rosalie Lowe, Tom Lloyd, James Mark Han and Ryohei Hoshi
Directed by Bingham Bryant & Kyle Molzan
Written by Bingham Bryant
Produced by Bingham Bryant
Cinematography by Christopher Messina
Composed by Keiichi Suzuki
Executive Producers: Tyler Brodie, Jake Perlin, Andrew Adair, Kate West
Festivals: BAMcinemaFest, Entrevues Belfort, Unknown Pleasures, San Francisco IndieFest, Nashville Film Festival, IndieLisboa, Jeonju IFF, Maryland Film Festival, Chicago Underground
PURCHASE
WATCH THE FILM
April 16, 2023
The Roxy, New York, NY info
PRESS
"By any standard, remarkable. An exquisitely delusional comedy."
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker
“Beguiling. Unclassifiable. A modest project of big ideas: about solitude, collaboration, conspiracy, magical thinking.”
– Melissa Anderson, Artforum
“A liberating alternative to anything else in recent American cinema.”
– Eric Kohn, Indiewire
"Unique beyond measure. The film's aesthetic is to die for."
– Jason Ooi, The Playlist