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Afterschool Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Antonio Campos, Country: USA, Release: 2008, Runtime: 106 Independent director Antonio Campos’s hypnotically concentrated first feature is set in the insulated world of a New England prep school. Robert, a withdrawn student who more or less lives on the Internet, unwittingly captures on video the sudden deaths by drug overdose of a pair of popular twin girls. As the school goes through an official mourning process, complete with the production of a memorial video, Robert becomes increasingly fragile. Solace, comfort, and true resolution are out of reach, and there is nothing but distraction and displacement. Campos has a keen eye for prep school life and the emotional fumbling of adolescents, and his formal control is something to behold. He frames the action in impressive wide shots which, coupled with a meticulously ambient soundtrack and the precise disaffection of his teenage cast, establishes a deeply unsettling tone. The rigorous Afterschool accomplishes something rare: the outlining of violent impulses as they are in the process of being sublimated. Antonio Campos b. 1983, New York, New York 2006 The Last 15 (short) ND/NF

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