UPTWON
Brian Ackley
Stars:
Chris Riquinha, Meissa Hampton, Derek MAllister, Deirdre Herlihy
Uptown feels like a conversation, a long drawn out story between an husband and wife at the point where the honeymoon is over and reality sets in. In this case it is the husband who has grown estranged from his wife and poses the question to her, what to do now.
In the process of their exploration and decision making the husband and wife bring to light the preciousness of intimacy; how difficult it is to establish, and how difficult to maintain. This conversation is a necessary component of any meaningful relationship due to the onslaught of too much outside stimulation and devices for communication that don't require human face to face or voice to voice contact.
It isn't just the new devices , this computer included, and the cell phones and ipod and ipad's but the wealth of information that keeps growing is so time consuming that we just don't have time. Even if we are among the many without daily employment time seems to be shrinking rather than expanding in this modern technologically driven ever expanding world. Simply stated there is no room to just be. And the effort to be with someone else is getting to be close to impossible. Watching children with their parent's while the parent is on the cell phone is one of the most painful sights that gives credence to the importance of this film
Watching Uptown brings us all back to what it means to be human; to feel, to think, to interact in a direct meaningful way without props, without all that noise, a way of being with one another that if lost renders us dramatically less than human
This is a film that reaffirms who we are and what we need from one another..........A subject well worth focusing on.
Linda Zises
WBAI Radio
Uptown will have its East Coast Premiere on Wednesday night, June 2nd, 2010, at 8:15pm, at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC as part of the 2010 NewFilmmakers NY Spring Series.
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