Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(from the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Anlo Sepulveda
Starring: Anis Mojgani, Roberta Colindrez, Tony Jackson and Jacqueline Leal
“Otis Under Sky” consists of multiple story lines about young individuals, each of whom puts some merit in faith while battling their day-to-day realities.
Otis (Anis Mojgani), a loner artist type obsessed with 2012 and VHS videotapes, and Ursula (Roberta Colindrez), a lesbian seemingly struggling with the concepts of trust and fidelity in her relationship, sit at the center of the film, providing an odd-yet-endearing focal point for this unconventional story.
With a raw shooting style and lo-fi sound in the dialogue exchanges, “Otis” feels a little like a student project at times, finding its feet by juxtaposing slide shows, songs and hyper-realizations of urban landscapes against subtle, personal scenes where individuals share their innermost thoughts with the audience via cats and computers.
At only 77 minutes,...
(from the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Anlo Sepulveda
Starring: Anis Mojgani, Roberta Colindrez, Tony Jackson and Jacqueline Leal
“Otis Under Sky” consists of multiple story lines about young individuals, each of whom puts some merit in faith while battling their day-to-day realities.
Otis (Anis Mojgani), a loner artist type obsessed with 2012 and VHS videotapes, and Ursula (Roberta Colindrez), a lesbian seemingly struggling with the concepts of trust and fidelity in her relationship, sit at the center of the film, providing an odd-yet-endearing focal point for this unconventional story.
With a raw shooting style and lo-fi sound in the dialogue exchanges, “Otis” feels a little like a student project at times, finding its feet by juxtaposing slide shows, songs and hyper-realizations of urban landscapes against subtle, personal scenes where individuals share their innermost thoughts with the audience via cats and computers.
At only 77 minutes,...
- 3/15/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(from the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Anlo Sepulveda
Starring: Anis Mojgani, Roberta Colindrez, Tony Jackson and Jacqueline Leal
“Otis Under Sky” consists of multiple story lines about young individuals, each of whom puts some merit in faith while battling their day-to-day realities.
Otis (Anis Mojgani), a loner artist type obsessed with 2012 and VHS videotapes, and Ursula (Roberta Colindrez), a lesbian seemingly struggling with the concepts of trust and fidelity in her relationship, sit at the center of the film, providing an odd-yet-endearing focal point for this unconventional story.
With a raw shooting style and lo-fi sound in the dialogue exchanges, “Otis” feels a little like a student project at times, finding its feet by juxtaposing slide shows, songs and hyper-realizations of urban landscapes against subtle, personal scenes where individuals share their innermost thoughts with the audience via cats and computers.
At only 77 minutes,...
(from the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Anlo Sepulveda
Starring: Anis Mojgani, Roberta Colindrez, Tony Jackson and Jacqueline Leal
“Otis Under Sky” consists of multiple story lines about young individuals, each of whom puts some merit in faith while battling their day-to-day realities.
Otis (Anis Mojgani), a loner artist type obsessed with 2012 and VHS videotapes, and Ursula (Roberta Colindrez), a lesbian seemingly struggling with the concepts of trust and fidelity in her relationship, sit at the center of the film, providing an odd-yet-endearing focal point for this unconventional story.
With a raw shooting style and lo-fi sound in the dialogue exchanges, “Otis” feels a little like a student project at times, finding its feet by juxtaposing slide shows, songs and hyper-realizations of urban landscapes against subtle, personal scenes where individuals share their innermost thoughts with the audience via cats and computers.
At only 77 minutes,...
- 3/15/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Screening Times: Sunday March 13th, 9:30pm (Rollins Theatre), Tuesday March 15th, 9:30pm (Westgate), Friday March 18th, 11:30am (Paramount Theatre)
The story of a Eastern religious obsessive vlogger and idiot savant whose social ineptitude only rivals his desire to create Web Art, Austin based director Anlo Sepulveda’s Otis Under Sky follows the title character as he falls in love with a kleptomaniac, womanizing lesbian and conceives of an Internet-based Art project to connect people spiritually via the Web.
Filmmaker: How did you first conceive of Otis Under Sky?
Sepulveda: The inspiration for Otis was a soft-spoken, somewhat awkward bull rider named Garrison I met years ago. He was into Eastern philosophy and religions. He eventually learned Arabic and moved to Morocco. He came back to Austin once for a visit and had a full beard and was wearing a turban. Of course, when Anis Mojgani was slated...
The story of a Eastern religious obsessive vlogger and idiot savant whose social ineptitude only rivals his desire to create Web Art, Austin based director Anlo Sepulveda’s Otis Under Sky follows the title character as he falls in love with a kleptomaniac, womanizing lesbian and conceives of an Internet-based Art project to connect people spiritually via the Web.
Filmmaker: How did you first conceive of Otis Under Sky?
Sepulveda: The inspiration for Otis was a soft-spoken, somewhat awkward bull rider named Garrison I met years ago. He was into Eastern philosophy and religions. He eventually learned Arabic and moved to Morocco. He came back to Austin once for a visit and had a full beard and was wearing a turban. Of course, when Anis Mojgani was slated...
- 3/15/2011
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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