COLLECTIVE:UNCONSCIOUS
SEGMENT : "BLACK SOIL, GREEN GRASS"
Feature Narrative / 77 min / 2016
Director: Daniel Patrick Carbone
Producer: Zach Shedd
DP: Nick Bentgen
Production Designer: Charlotte Royer
OFFICIAL SELECTION SXSW 2016 / BAM CINEMAFEST 2016 / MARYLAND FF 2016
Variety "visually striking"
Rolling Stone "It's like nothing you’ve ever seen with your eyes open"
The New Yorker "strikingly original and consistently inspired"
Brooklyn Magazine "an entrancing fantasy of liberation through art"
Screen Slate "A virtual Jungian salon"
Smells Like Screen Spirit "cinematic magic"
Five of New York’s most innovative independent directors adapt each other’s dreams for the big screen in this ambitious omnibus film. Formally audacious and wildly unpredictable, this cinematic descent into the surreal ranges from the ominous to the absurd: a gym class is conducted from inside a volcano; the Grim Reaper hosts a chilling game show; one man’s risky quest changes a brainwashing tower signal; former prison inmates reflect on their first moments of freedom; and a mother-to-be realizes a beast is growing in her womb.