|
 |
WINNER,
SILVER PRIZE, JURY AWARD
Chicago
Underground Film Festival, 2000
WINNER,
DIGITAL DARING, JURY AWARD
Jeonju International Film Festival,
Korea 2001 |
 |
OFFICIAL SELECTION
53RD LOCARNO
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
2001 LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL
BERLINBETA VERSION 3.0 FILM FESTIVAL
ATHENS
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
7TH CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
14TH NEW YORK MIX FESTIVAL
14TH DALLAS VIDEO FESTIVAL
6TH ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL
NEW HAVEN
2001 JEONJU INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL, KOREA
2001 DIGITAL
TALKIES FESTIVAL, NEW DELHI, INDIA
"...DV
filmmaking icon Todd Verow's "Once & Future Queen," which stars
Philly as a down-and-out rocker seeking fame and friendship.
The film's episodic structure and dense sound design, as well
as Verow's visual acumen, make this one of his strongest films
to date."
-
RES MAGAZINE
"You
may leave this latest Todd Verow feature feeling vaguely unclean,
but if you haven't been entertained, it won't be for the lack
of effort of Verow and New York scene queen Philly. If you're
not glued to your seat as Antimatter drinks, f**** and pill-pops
here way across the Lower East Side, you'll be running for the
door."
-
LA WEEKLY
"Digital
video's radical fringe"
- VARIETY
"Underground
filmmaking at its best."
- REEL.COM
"...outstanding-
a video-vérité punk fable."
- THE BOSTON PHOENIX
"Downright
stunning"
- THE NEW YORK INDEPENDENT FILM MONITOR
"Funny & genuine"
- INDIEWIRE
"An entertainingly appalling, cheerfully nihilistic portrait...
comically bodacious actress Philly may remind viewers of the
Divine
of the early John Waters films,
but her performance here is tougher."
- THE TENNESSEAN
"Hilariously tragic"
-IFCrant
"...Once and Future Queen chooses to be
the absolute rock film, screaming its own anti-heroic hymn
for those who feel brave and ready to take a risk."
- OPENING NIGHTS 2000, GREECE
"...its shock and rock value are undeniable."
- THE MINNESOTA DAILY
"Whether she's draining the booze from an alcoholic friend's
pad "to remove all temptation for you" or sullenly raiding the
refrigerator of one of her three ex-husbands ("he's just pissed
because I pulled a knife on him"), Anti-Matter is the pitch-perfect
intersection of where narcissism crosses arrested ability."
- THE DALLAS OBSERVER
"...vivid and unpredictable... a fascinating bundle of contradictions."
- THE CHICAGO READER
"Should be required viewing in all of our nation's public schools."
- BRUCE
BENDERSON, author
|
STARRING PHILLY as ANTIMATTER
WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY JIM DWYER, TODD VEROW &
PHILLY
DIRECTED BY TODD VEROW
Anti-Matter (Philly)
is the queen of nothing, the ruler of nowhere, the monarch of
cyphers- in other words, she's too cool for you- but can you
put her up for the night? Drifting through the Lower East Side
like the death rattle echoes of rock and roll, she's on a desperate,
desolate mission to get her band together and finally conquer
something, anything. Her manic manipulations and chaotic philosophies
never seem to gel in the present- she's either a step behind
or two steps ahead- but never where she really sees herself
to be- wherever that is. Her therapist (Brenda
Velez) can't help her and she just wants to get drunk with
her AA buddy (Eric Sapp)
Old friends (Jennifer Blowdryer, Kid Congo Powers) don't want
anything to do with her and new "friends" (Lee Whittier,
Tia Sprocket) simply don't know what to do with her.
Bored with the dangling fly strip tease of fame that has eluded
her throughout her whole life; she's nevertheless only alive
on stage; dreaming of a place where no one will unplug that
amp, threaten her life or shovel her out the door in the morning.
Of course her rampant drug and alcohol use, her frequent homelessness,
the fact that she isn't getting any younger and that she's been
married more times than Liz Taylor doesn't help any. As her
connections to reality slip away in the haze of her traveling
sideshow lifestyle, the inferno of celebrity and self-destruction
seductively beckon.
Todd Verow's ONCE AND FUTURE QUEEN
is a woman destined to be at the wrong place at the wrong time
and somehow making that into a fashion statement. If you've
ever felt used and abused, under appreciated, scraped off the
sidewalk or simply horny, Anti-Matter has some advice for you.
She's been there, done that and didn't give a shit. Or so she
says.
"George
Eliot called St. Theresa of Avila, a young girl in the middle
ages who was passionately determined to find glory in the holy
wars, a "...foundress of nothing..." This might apply to the
anti-heroine of "Once and Future Queen". Despite bad hair days,
lurid fashion statements, and a throat of iron, aging punk rock
singer Antimatter hasn't managed to attain the fame she thinks
she deserves. But she'll live the life anyway as she grabs at
every depraved entitlement of fame she can beg or steal from
her friends while dreaming of a gig where nobody unplugs the
amp. Anyway, who said fame is an achievement? Maybe its just
a state of mind."
- New Haven FIlm Festival Catalogue Notes, 2001
|
|
|
|