Eat

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Beautifully photographed, Steklarski Blues has been compared to "a voyage in a spaceship, guided by a quiet queen of glass." In fact, it could be said that all the films in this program explore some aspect of distance, whether it is being covered or growing between us. Films such as Viaje en Taxi, The Wait, and member take us for a ride from point A to point B, it is true. However, there are deeper journeys lying beneath the literal surface of these films, journeys of discovery, revelation, and madness. Of course, there is the distance we find and create between the surrounding world and ourselves. From dislocated voices that issue through the drugged darkness; the seemingly utter non-communication between couples; to a bizarre cast of lonely, droning, and fantasizing characters in Bill Plympton's Eat, we find that the distance of alienation can be the hardest to close. In the end, we find that human connection comes in many formsÉeven in a silent look. Reviewed by Matthew Aquino