About this Event
Vital Signs Film Series is delighted to welcome A.S. Hamrah for a special screening, discussion, book-signing, merciless report on a film industry in self-imposed crisis, and several glimmers of cinephilic hope. "Most people's favorite film critic," as described by Screen Slate, Hamrah's most recent book is Last Week in End Times Cinema.
The Becomers (2023)
By Zach Clark
90 minutes
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Proving love is indeed the strangest force in the universe, Zach Clark's oddball romance follows a pair of body-snatching aliens across America as they try to find both their place within this odd world and each other. Featuring narration by Russell Mael (Sparks), this freewheeling science-fiction comedy is filled lo-fi effects and the heartfelt, emotionally astute exploration of what it means to find your own kind. A truly one-of-a-kind film that'll make you feel closer to everyone in the cinema by the end.
"Zach Clark has alarming ideas he turns into well-written screenplays and then directs on a tight budget, and he's great with actors," A.S. Hamrah writes. "There's no reason Clark isn't the next Jonathan Demme, besides a general, society-wide incompetence that can always find the money for anything as long as it isn't good."
Event venue & nearby stays
Shapeshifters Cinema, 567 Fifth Street, Oakland, United States
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