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I attended the Salt Lake screening of "Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles," which is competing in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival. It is an engrossing film and well-told as it documents the efforts of three young men who are investigating why bizarre street tiles are appearing all over the East Coast (and even in South America). The tiles have a mystifying message:
Toynbee Idea in Movie 2001.
Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter.
At the Q and A after the film, the director, Jon Foy appeared, as well as a pleasant surprise: two of the investigators.
Foy told the crowd that this was his first film, and it took him nearly six (SIX!) years to make, as he supported himself by being a house-cleaner. "I dropped out of film school and moved to Philadelphia to do this film," he said. "For five-and-a-half years everyone thought I was crazy."
One interesting moment came when a woman stood up and said that she had known nothing about this film when she decided to see it, and it was the first film she had seen at Sundance this year. She said he grew up a few doors down from one of the suspects investigated in the film, and the suspect and her father had been good friends. She had only one question for the filmmaker: "Isn't that weird?"
Yes, it is.
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