Films
DIGITAL UNDERGROUND
Once
& Future Queen
Sunday,
August 27, 9:30pm, Cell
Todd Verow, 90 min, West Coast Premiere
Antimatter
(Philly) is the queen of nothing, the ruler of nowhere - in other words,
she's too cool for you - but can you put her up for the night? Drifting
through the Lower East Side like the death-rattle echoes of rock and roll,
she's on a desperate, desolate mission to get her band together and finally
conquer something, anything. Her manic manipulations and chaotic philosophies
never seem to gel in the present - she's either a step behind or two steps
ahead - but never where she really sees herself to be - wherever that
is. Bored with the dangling fly-strip tease of fame that has eluded her
her whole life, she's nevertheless only alive on stage; dreaming of a
place where no one will unplug that amp, threaten her life or shovel her
out the door in the morning. Of course her rampant drug and alcohol use,
her frequent homelessness, the fact that she isn't getting any younger
and that she's been married more times than Liz Taylor doesn't help. As
her connections to reality slip away in the haze of her traveling sideshow
lifestyle, the inferno of celebrity and self-destruction seductively beckon.
ONCE AND FUTURE QUEEN is a woman destined to be at the wrong place at
the wrong time and somehow make that into a fashion statement. If you've
ever felt used and abused, under appreciated, scraped off the sidewalk
or simply horny, Antimatter has some advice for you. She's been there,
done that and didn't give a shit. Or so she says. "Downright stunning
...Cute movies like "Smithereens" should be formally interred under well-worn
tapes of Once and Future Queen." - Peter Hall, New York Independent Film
Monitor