Creative Control
Director: Benjamin Dickinson Run Time: 97 min. Format: DCP Rating: R Release Year: 2016
Starring: Alexia Rasmussen, Dan Gill, Nora Zehetner, Reggie Watts
Nitehawk’s LOCAL COLOR and Tribeca Film Festival present the Brooklyn Premiere of CREATIVE CONTROL with Magnolia Pictures. Q&A with writer/director Benjamin Dickinson and cast!
The setting is New York, 5 minutes in the future. The glorious technological advances and communication devices of the near future meant to increase connectivity and alleviate boredom are only increasing the anxiety level of the insecure New Yorkers who’ve inherited them. David (writer/director Benjamin Dickinson) is an overworked, tech-addled advertising executive developing a high-profile marketing campaign, featuring musician/comedian Reggie Watts, for a new generation of Augmented Reality glasses. Feeling stuck in his relationship with yoga teacher Juliette, he envies the charmed life of his best friend, fashion photographer Wim and his entrancing girlfriend Sophie – so he uses the glasses to develop a life-like avatar of her. Unwittingly, fantasy and reality begin to blur. As passions escalate and things get increasingly out of hand, the friends are forced to deal with the impending collision between their public, private and imaginary lives.
Local Color is in partnership with Tribeca Film Festival.