Directed by Alexis Boling Written by Bodine Boling Cinematography Alexis Boling | Produced by Serena Hedison Music by Dan Tepfer | |
Starring Bodine Boling
Catherine Missal
Brendan Griffin
David Andrew Macdonald | ||
Movement and Location (also called Movement + Location) is an American science fiction movie set in modern-day Brooklyn, directed by Alexis Boling. It stars Bodine Boling, Catherine Missal, Brendan Griffin, Anna Margaret Hollyman, David Andrew Macdonald and John Dapolito. Movement and Location tells the story of Kim Getty, an immigrant from 400 years in the future who is sent back in time to live an easier life. It premiered at the 2014 Brooklyn Film Festival where it won the Audience Award, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score.
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Plot summary
Kim Getty is an immigrant from 400 years in the future, who has traveled back in time to live out an easier life. It turns out to be an isolating, one-way trip, but in the three years since her arrival Kim has built a life that she is almost satisfied with. She has a job, an apartment with a roommate, and is beginning to fall in love.
But when she encounters a teenage girl who is also from the future, Kim’s remade sense of self is put to the test. The girl leads Kim to her long-lost husband, now 20 years older than her and maladjusted to contemporary society, and Kim’s carefully reinvented identity starts to unravel.
Kim finds herself needing to choose between two completely different lives, but as her secrets are exposed, the real decision is what she is willing to do to survive.
Production
Movement and Location was filmed over 18 days, predominantly in Brooklyn. Local filming locations included Prospect Park, the Promenade in Brooklyn Heights, and Ft. Greene boutique Thistle & Clover. One filming location burned down shortly after filming took place. Bodine Boling said that if the fire had happened two weeks earlier, the movie would have been put on indefinite hold.
Movement and Location was the first film that used crowdfunding website Seed and Spark to premiere at a festival.
Music
Dan Tepfer composed Movement and Location's score. The film also features original song "Don't Skip a Beat" by Imani Coppola.
Reception
As the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound international film magazine describes, "The drama that emerges from these broken, fugitive lives is as an allegory of exile, immigration and assimilation, while defamiliarising the things (food, water, space) that we take for granted in our own times."
This Week In New York praised the film upon its release, asserting, "Despite its sci-fi plot, Movement and Location is a gently paced, well-acted, and honest depiction of relationships and responsibility in modern-day Brooklyn."