Festival Screenings
World Premiere: Monday, January 27th at 5:30pm MT (Egyptian Theatre)
P&I Screening: Tuesday, January 28th at 1:00pm MT (Holiday Village 4)
Public Screening #2: Tuesday, January 28th at 8:10pm MT (Redstone Cinemas 2)
Public Screening #3: Thursday, January 30th at 10:00am MT (Holiday Village 1)
P&I Online Screening: Thursday, January 29th at 10:00am ET
(Available until Monday, February 3rd at 1:55am ET)
Public Screening #4: Friday, January 31st at 9:15pm MT
(Broadway Centre Cinemas 3, Salt Lake City)
Public Screening #5: Saturday, February 1st at 1:10pm MT (Redstone Cinemas 2)
Synopsis
The true crime genre’s ubiquity is driven by people’s endless fascination, disgust, and — bizarrely — search for comfort in genre conventions that still have the ability to generate complex emotions despite their predictability and familiarity.
Having tried and failed to make a documentary about the infamous Zodiac Killer, filmmaker Charlie Shackleton walks the viewer through what his film would have been like and why, using Bay Area landscapes, reenactments, film and TV clips, and voice-over. In this wholly original, self-aware cinematic work, a filmmaker chews over what might have been and playfully probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.
About the Director
Charlie Shackleton is a nonfiction filmmaker working across film, television, radio, and immersive media. He is one third of the London-based production outfit Loop. His films have shown at Sundance, IDFA and SXSW, and won awards including a British Independent Film Award and a Grierson. His last project, the performance film As Mine Exactly, won the Immersive Art & XR Award at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival and went on to have extended runs at the Barbican Centre in London and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.
Director: Charlie Shackleton
Producers: Catherine Bray, Anthony Ing, Charlie Shackleton
Cinematographer: Xenia Patricia
Composer: Jeremy Warmsley
Focus Puller: Alex Tan
Festival Section: NEXT
Country: United States / United Kingdom
Run Time: 92 mins.
Sales: Cinetic Media
