ARTIST IN PERSON

As regional character disappears and corporate culture homogenizes our surroundings, it's increasingly hard to tell where you are. In CHAIN, actual malls, theme parks, hotels and corporate centers worldwide are joined into a monolithic "superlandscape" that shapes and circumscribes the lives of two women. One is a businesswoman researching the international theme park industry for her home company. The other is a young drifter, illegally living and working on the fringes of a shopping mall.

CHAIN premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival (Forum Section), and has been selected for festivals including Edinburgh, Vancouver, Vienna, Woodstock, Cinematexas, Melbourne, and Singapore. Its New York premiere was at the Museum of Modern Art, and it had a theatrical run in New York at the new IFC Theater. It opened theatrically in London at the Curzon Soho, won the Prix Léo Scheer Award at the Belfort Entrevues Film Festival, a 2005 Independent Spirit Award presented by the IFP, and was selected as the opening night film at the Images Festival, Toronto in 2005. CHAIN was broadcast on Arte/ZDF in France and Germany.

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March, 2006 - 2006