Hyperfutura

HYPERFUTURA
poster by Oliver Brown Design
Directed by James O'Brien
Produced by Eric Kopatz & James O'Brien
Written by James O'Brien
Starring
  • Eric Kopatz
  • Karen Corona
  • Gregory Kiem
  • Brando McClure
Music by Jesse Bilson
Cinematography Ama MacDonald
Edited by Ron Soha & Brando McClure
Production
company
Coldwater Bluemoon
Distributed by PanGlobal Entertainment
Release dates
 2013
Language English

Hyperfutura is a 2013 sci-fi cult film from American filmmaker James O'Brien, starring Eric Kopatz, Karen Corona, Gregory Kiem, Scott Donovan, Celine Brigitte, Alysse Cobb, Lionel Heredia, Gary Kohn, Edward Romero and William Moore. It draws elements from the mashup video movement, Ed Wood, time travel and transhumanism. Utilizing both stock footage and a live action narrative, it takes the viewer on a psychedelic voyage into the subconscious of a hybrid robot human sent back in time.[1]

The film is based on the epic poem Hyperfutura by Eric Kopatz. The screenplay is by James O'Brien. The film was edited by Brando McClure and Ron Soha, with cinematography by Ama MacDonald, visual effects by John Younger and sound design by Jesse Bilson. It has been compared to Spectres of the Spectrum by experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin, Eraserhead by David Lynch and the cinema of Andy Warhol.

This bizarre cult offering is not for everyone and its producers Kopatz & O'Brien, from the production company Coldwater Bluemoon, put out a warning to viewers to watch at their own risk. It pays homage to such counterculture works as The Church of the SubGenius and the fictional experimental filmmaker James Orin Incandenza from the David Foster Wallace novel Infinite Jest.

Hyperfutura premiered in Santa Monica, California, in July 2012 at the video store Vidiots. It was released by PanGlobal Entertainment worldwide in 2013.

Despite its microbudget garage cinema approach, the film made The Most Popular "Time Travel" Feature Films Released in 2013.[2] as well as the Top 50 Independent Video Rentals in iTunes.[3]

It is also featured in The Big List of Time Travel Adventures [4] and The Quintessential List of Time Travel Cinematic Movies.[5]

Hyperfutura was a favorite of Chinese film critic JJ Toot Sheep who reviewed the film, known as Utopia Black Hole in China. Sheep made a number of connections to the material in his review titled: "In fact, it is the intelligent robot Adam...[6]

Cult film historian Fraser Sherman called attention to the film, comparing it to The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.[7]

The film was shot in 10 days in the Southern California locations of Venice, Long Beach, Reseda and Malibu.

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References

  1. ↑ Cannes Film Festival Dailies, Chatelin, Bruno. http://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/cannes_market_dailies/james_obrien_s_hyperfutura_the_controversial_cult_sci_fi_feature_film_with_eric_kopatz_gets_cable_vod
  2. ↑ IMDb, http://www.imdb.com/search/title?keywords=time-travel&sort=moviemeter&title_type=feature&year=2013,2013
  3. ↑ iTunes. https://www.watchmovi.es/hk/4409
  4. ↑ Timelinks, Main, Adams, Chris. http://www.storypilot.com/tt.php?first=2013&final=
  5. ↑ Krabats, Kenneth. Time Travel Film. http://www.lara.on.ca/~boxall/index.html
  6. ↑ Sheep, JJ Toot, Utopia Black Hole. https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=zh-CN&u=http://movie.douban.com/review/6321993/&usg=ALkJrhg-qOfiIBgpeXTsSho8x1SNqBOlBA
  7. ↑ Sherman, Fraser. https://frasersherman.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/more-bad-time-travel-movies-and-some-good-tvsfwapro/


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