Watch Anytime • Virtual Screening Room: SLOW MACHINE

SLOW MACHINE
Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society
Streaming tickets now available!
Directed by Evergreen graduates Paul Felten and Joe DeNardo, Slow Machine is a mystery that will linger with you. Stephanie, a restless and vibrant actress, meets Gerard, an NYPD counter-terrorism specialist who’s an aficionado of experimental theater (and maybe out of his mind). Flirtation ensues, ends disastrously, and forces Stephanie to the ramshackle upstate home of musician Eleanor Friedberger, yet this supposed escape is infected by violent memories of her past life. A miniature epic of paranoia, espionage, subterfuge, music, and performance captured on lush and invigorating 16mm, Slow Machine heralds major new talent.
Dir: Paul Felten & Joe DeNardo / 2021 / US / 70 min

“Exemplifies the best qualities of a genuine indie: a spirited, intelligent, ambitious and more than a little reckless endeavor which transcends its extremely modest means through sheer invention.” — Giovanni Marchini Camia, Filmmaker Magazine

“Difficult to describe and confounding to follow, the film is best when you submit to the surreal nature of it; then, you will be open to witnessing one of this year’s most mesmerizing movies unfold.” — Kristen Yoonsoo Kim, New York Times

“If American cinema is ever going to transcend the banal and shapeless superhero fantasies that have occupied so much mental and physical space this past decade-plus, more films like Slow Machine will be needed to jar us out of our collective complacency.” — Glenn Heath, Jr., The Film Stage