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WINNER, SILVER PRIZE,
JURY AWARD
Chicago Underground Film Festival, 2000
WINNER, DIGITAL DARING,
JURY AWARD
Jeonju International Film Festival, Korea 2001
once & future
queen
Anti-Matter (Philly)
is the queen of nothing, the ruler of nowhere, the monarch of cyphers- in
other words, she's too cool for you- but can you put her up for the night?
Drifting through the Lower East Side like the death rattle echoes of rock
and roll, she's on a desperate, desolate mission to get her band together
and finally conquer something, anything. Her manic manipulations and chaotic
philosophies never seem to gel in the present- she's either a step behind or
two steps ahead- but never where she really sees herself to be- wherever
that is. Her therapist (Brenda
Velez) can't help her and she just wants to get drunk with her AA
buddy (Eric
Sapp)
Old friends (Jennifer Blowdryer, Kid Congo Powers) don't want anything to do
with her and new "friends" (Lee Whittier, Tia Sprocket) simply don't know
what to do with her.
Bored with the dangling fly strip tease of fame that has eluded her
throughout her whole life; she's nevertheless only alive on stage; dreaming
of a place where no one will unplug that amp, threaten her life or shovel
her out the door in the morning. Of course her rampant drug and alcohol use,
her frequent homelessness, the fact that she isn't getting any younger and
that she's been married more times than Liz Taylor doesn't help any. As her
connections to reality slip away in the haze of her traveling sideshow
lifestyle, the inferno of celebrity and self-destruction seductively beckon.
Todd Verow's ONCE AND FUTURE
QUEEN is a woman destined to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and
somehow making that into a fashion statement. If you've ever felt used and
abused, under appreciated, scraped off the sidewalk or simply horny,
Anti-Matter has some advice for you. She's been there, done that and didn't
give a shit. Or so she says.
Starring:
PHILLY as ANTIMATTER
WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY JIM DWYER, TODD VEROW & PHILLY
DIRECTED BY TODD VEROW
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