Fiction

TRONA

David Fenster
USA 2004
63 min
V'04

David Fensters Trona is most powerful and its most puzzling. A moustached man stares idly at a desert wasteland from his airline window, then finds himself standing on a sand dune. Theres no crash, no science fiction, no miracle, nothing: the man is in the air, and then he isnt. Next scene. This elision defies narrative logic, but its the essence of the films larger point. The man has simply willed himself out of the airplane, out of his old life and into a new one. Left to wander the desert in his tighty whities after his clothes are stolen, hes slipped from a world of nagging and responsibility to one of open hostility. He leaps from one world to another and gains only the chance to be indolent. As tempting as it might be to play spot the influence it fails to get at whats most original about the film. At its best, Trona operates at that point where genres impinge on one another: an existential comedy, a static road movie, a claustrophobic picaresque, it is, more than anything else, doggedly, hilariously strange. (Gary Mairs)

Credits
  • Libby Hux - Die Frau
  • Cy Kuckenbaker - Barbesitzer
  • David Nordstrom - Der Mann
  • Lee Lynch - Der Bruder
  • Maneesh Sharma - Dieb
  • David Fenster
  • David Fenster
  • David Fenster
  • Cy Kuckenbaker
  • Raffaello Mazza
  • David Fenster
  • Tatsuhiko Asano
  • David Fenster
  • David Nordstrom
David Fenster 3757 Carmen Ct. Miami, FL 33133, USA T 310 592 6141 dfenster@calarts.edu

David Fenster 3757 Carmen Ct. Miami, FL 33133, USA T 310 592 6141 dfenster@calarts.edu

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