

Fri, Jan 13
|Highways
Wild Bones (with short "Écorchée")
a Film Maudit 2.0 Feature Film presentation
Time & Location
Jan 13, 2023, 6:00 PM – 7:40 PM
Highways, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
About The Event
Two sisters, Fay and Alice, attempt to reconnect after their father’s disappearance. While Fay is on the brink of madness from past tragedies, Alice tries to help bring her back from the precipice.
“An extreme yet intimate portrait of psychological scars and self-effacement … presented in a mode of modern gothic … Jack James’ psychodrama is a manically disorienting, dissociative dance around domestic dysfunction, deep trauma, and daddy absent (but ever-present).” –AntBit
With a background in fine art, director adapted the fevered atmosphere of his stop-motion animations into live-action for his debut feature . His second feature, , has earned him top awards at the Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Arizona Underground Film Festival, Cuzco Underground Cinema Festival, and Hallucinea Film Festival.Jack James MaladyWild Bones
Writer/Director: Jack James
Year: 2022
Run Time: 1hr 27min
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Psychological Satire