George, a lonely librarian, believes love is obsolete, until a road trip to Death Valley with a cinema projectionist named Sophie teaches him otherwise.
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like people thinking out loud.
Cinematography
Death Valley as character, not backdrop.
Director
Diane Bell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 18 days on a $140,000 budget. Won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at Sundance for science in cinema.
The 'obsolete' technologies George documents — VHS, card catalogs, phone booths — now feel prophetic. The film itself became nearly obsolete, barely distributed.
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