Creative Control

Nominee
Grand Jury Award ~ Narrative Feature
South by Southwest
For a film about technology's growing dehumanization, this stylized beauty is a frisky, formidable temptation.
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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Creative Control

The setting is New York, five minutes in the future. The glorious technological advances and communication devices of the near future meant to increase connectivity and alleviate boredom are only increasing the anxiety level of the insecure New Yorkers who've inherited them. David (writer-director Benjamin Dickinson) is an overworked, tech-addled advertising executive developing a high-profile marketing campaign for a new generation of Augmented Reality glasses. Feeling stuck in his relationship with yoga teacher Juliette (Nora Zehetner, BRICK, IFC's "Maron"), he envies the charmed life of his best friend, fashion photographer Wim (Dan Gill, THE WEDDING RINGER) and his entrancing girlfriend Sophie (Alexia Rasmussen, CALIFORNIA SOLO) - so he uses the glasses to develop a life-like avatar of her. Unwittingly, fantasy and reality begin to blur. As passions escalate and things get increasingly out of hand, the friends are forced to deal with the impending collision between their public, private and imaginary lives.
R
Genre
Drama
Runtime
97
Language
English
Director
Benjamin Dickinson
Cast
Reggie Watts, Alexia Rasmussen, Dan Gill, Nora Zehetner
Awards:
Nominee, Grand Jury Award ~ Narrative Feature, South by Southwest
FEATURED REVIEW
Ben Kenigsberg, Variety

Well timed in light of the unveiling of the Apple Watch, “Creative Control” reps a big step forward for its co-writer/director, Benjamin Dickinson, following his promising 2012 debut, “First Winter.” The story of an ad exec who finds his priorities rewired while testing a pair of eyeglasses that ...

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