A languorous, ethnobiological romance that’s lodged somewhere between yesterday and tomorrow — memory and anticipation — Jessica Oreck’s singularly transportive
Announcing itself as “a true story, set in the future,” Oreck’s film largely eschews action in favor of entropy, its plot simple enough to sound like a premise: As millions of people starve to death in a frigid city that was deprived of food for 900 days, two high-cheekboned workers at the world’s first seed bank fight to preserve a priceless collection of genetically diverse plant life. Eating the produce would feed a small handful of extremely hungry people for a few days, but harvesting the seeds might allow for the possibility of restoring the world’s agriculture when the war ends. If the war ends.
For Alyssa (Alyssa Lozovskaya) and Maksim (Maksim Blinov), the decision is so obvious that Oreck hardly needs to dramatize it being made. One day,...
Announcing itself as “a true story, set in the future,” Oreck’s film largely eschews action in favor of entropy, its plot simple enough to sound like a premise: As millions of people starve to death in a frigid city that was deprived of food for 900 days, two high-cheekboned workers at the world’s first seed bank fight to preserve a priceless collection of genetically diverse plant life. Eating the produce would feed a small handful of extremely hungry people for a few days, but harvesting the seeds might allow for the possibility of restoring the world’s agriculture when the war ends. If the war ends.
For Alyssa (Alyssa Lozovskaya) and Maksim (Maksim Blinov), the decision is so obvious that Oreck hardly needs to dramatize it being made. One day,...
- 7/27/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Jessica Oreck’s One Man Dies a Million Times premiered at SXSW 2019 but is only now about to enter theatrical release. That’s because Oreck—an adventurous, hybrid nonfiction filmmaker whose previous work includes The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga and and Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo—intended for the film to only be seen in theaters beginning in May 2020, a plan delayed by the pandemic. The film continues Oreck’s longstanding professional collaboration with Sean Price Williams, while programmer Eric Allen Hatch (who’s written for Filmmaker before) is acting as the film’s distributor. From the press release: Alyssa (Alyssa Lozovskaya, of Russian […]
The post Trailer Watch: Jessica Oreck’s One Man Dies a Million Times first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Trailer Watch: Jessica Oreck’s One Man Dies a Million Times first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 7/19/2022
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Jessica Oreck’s One Man Dies a Million Times premiered at SXSW 2019 but is only now about to enter theatrical release. That’s because Oreck—an adventurous, hybrid nonfiction filmmaker whose previous work includes The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga and and Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo—intended for the film to only be seen in theaters beginning in May 2020, a plan delayed by the pandemic. The film continues Oreck’s longstanding professional collaboration with Sean Price Williams, while programmer Eric Allen Hatch (who’s written for Filmmaker before) is acting as the film’s distributor. From the press release: Alyssa (Alyssa Lozovskaya, of Russian […]
The post Trailer Watch: Jessica Oreck’s One Man Dies a Million Times first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Trailer Watch: Jessica Oreck’s One Man Dies a Million Times first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 7/19/2022
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The tradition of Tarkovsky burns bright in Jessica Oreck’s One Man Dies a Million Times, a feature which premiered at SXSW back in 2019 and was planning a theatrical roll-out right around the time the pandemic hit. With the filmmaker wanting to preserve the theatrical experience, it’ll arrive on July 29 at IFC Center and there’s no plans for the film to ever hit online/streaming services.
Part documentary, part legend, One Man Dies a Million Times draws inspiration of the true story of a seed bank and the botanists who worked there throughout the Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944). Described as a “a true story, set in the future,” the film is about seeds and genetic diversity, about growth and decay, about love and war, about hunger of all kinds. About what it means to be human, even when all your humanity is stripped away.”
Shot by the great Sean Price Williams,...
Part documentary, part legend, One Man Dies a Million Times draws inspiration of the true story of a seed bank and the botanists who worked there throughout the Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944). Described as a “a true story, set in the future,” the film is about seeds and genetic diversity, about growth and decay, about love and war, about hunger of all kinds. About what it means to be human, even when all your humanity is stripped away.”
Shot by the great Sean Price Williams,...
- 7/19/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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