Artifacts

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Innovative and original, yet harkening back to the tradition of the conversational classic My Dinner With Andre, first-time director Jon Zeiderman's bold and offbeat new film Artifacts defies the expectations of today's filmgoer with an inimitable style and a seemingly-effortless flair that few veterans can accomplish. Jack and Sonny's conversations are about women. In fact, no matter what they're talking about, they always meander back to talking about women. Sonny is the conventional married man who stays close to home while Jack is the wanderer in search of love and sex, still in search of "The One." Digitally photographed in only three locations, Artifacts is subtle, funny and sometimes shocking as it touches on the real-life difficulties inherent in modern relationships. Just as Louis Malle posed profound questions about life in his collaboration with Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, so does Zeiderman as he and actors Sean Gullette (Pi) and Rick Mowat (Sweet and Lowdown) prove that there is nothing quite so captivating to an audience as the telling of personal stories through uninhibited conversation between two old friends. No amount of car chases or gunfights can hope to rival that notion. --Ed Soohoo "I found the acting exciting and adventurous." - Rod Steiger, Academy Award-winning actor. "Zeiderman's crafty writing builds with disarmingly offhand humor to a point of savage revelation and then onwards into genuine compassion." - Bret Easton Ellis, author