The General Returns From One Place to Another
11 min / 16mm on SD / 2006
Through a concurrently indulgent and skeptical experience of the beautiful, the film draws an uneasy balance between the romantic and the horrid. A nihilistic monologue (from Frank O’Hara’s play of the same title) attempts to undercut the sincerity of the landscape, but there are stronger forces surfacing.
“More than any other work of Robinson’s, 'The General Returns' achieves something heady, ethereal, altogether mysterious and nearly impossible to define. This was my introduction to Robinson, and the immediate reaction was a mixture of seduction and befuddlement, the sense that an audio-visual world for which I had no available vocabulary or affective framework had just opened up before my eyes.“ - Michael Sicinski, Cinema Scope
Press:
CINEMA SCOPE interview
AURORA catalogue essay
WHEEL ME OUT interview
INCITE! interview
ACADEMIC HACK review
VILLAGE VOICE IFFR review
VILLAGE VOICE NYFF review
SF GATE review
INDIEWIRE review
4:3 interview
FILM COMMENT best of decade
FOUND FOOTAGE MAGAZINE interview
LUCID DREAMING interview
TIGER SHORT NOMINEE - 2007 IFF Rotterdam
MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER AWARD - 2007 Ann Arbor Film Festival
2ND PRIZE SHORT FILM - 2007 FLEX Festival, Gainesville
3ND PRIZE - 2007 Onion City Film Festival, Chicago
HONORABLE MENTION - 2007 Media City Festival, Windsor
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