Zero (Dvd) (Fotopoulos)

One man's descent is the focus of this experimental work, the first feature from Chicago independent James Fotopoulos (MIGRATING FORMS). This journey follows only one character for two and a half hours, and creates a unique psychological portrait, captured from both an objective point of view as well as deep within the man's mind. This man (Matthew Buckley) is filmed in long sequences in an obscenely lonely apartment. His isolation increases his unstable state of mind as the man begins to dissect a cow's head, masturbate, and vomit profane, nonsensical rants. Comparisons to David Lynch and David Cronenberg are inevitable (particularly considering the appearance of a cyst on the film's hero, a regular Fotopoulos theme), but writer/director/producer/sound editor Fotopoulos has such an arresting, original style that no comparison makes sense. ZERO was shot in black and white and contains tinted sequences.