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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