A little prior history. Several years ago, in early 2002, the IFFR showed the documentary Horns and Halos by Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley about the problems of a biographer of George Bush Jr, and his passionate publisher, a certain Sander Hicks, also a punk singer, cleaner, bar owner and tireless fighter against neo-conservative lies and deceit.
This Hicks is unmistakably the source of inspiration and the model for the hero, Thomas Flynn, of this cleverly made satirical film noir with a message. The title refers to the programme of a privatised intelligence service that destroyed 2.5 terabytes of data about the financing of Al Qaeda in the six months before 11 September. In other words we find ourselves on the territory of the alternative explanations for 9/11.
Thomas Flynn runs a left wing (‘radical’) café/bookstore and is the writer of a conspiracy exposé about 9/11. He suddenly finds himself the focus of attention of a beautiful Eastern European femme fatale (played by the unique Elina Lowensöhn), who is fleeing the architects of a worldwide cover-up of 9/11. Thomas does everything he can to find out what really happened and soon has to cycle like a maniac when the first dead bodies start raining down around him. (GT)
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 86"
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
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