August 8, 3:00PMFinsbury Park Picturehouse
dir. Patrick Gray & Adrian Anderson
USA, 2023, 65 mins
August 9, 6:00PM
Castle Cinema
Three soon-to-be college graduates become entangled in an absurd plot involving their professor’s run for mayor, an Elvis impersonator, and a group of radical artists.
Patrick Gray and Adrian Anderson dare to ask what few filmmakers have thought to: “Would Freud like Vermont?”
Pomp and Circumstance, the second feature from low-budget cinema champions NoBudge, finds itself at the end of the world: Burlington, Vermont. A film preoccupied with the simulacrum of revolution — protest, art and imitation — it tumbles through pseudo-intellectual debates and cultural anxieties, feeling like the unlikely collision of Richard Linklater, Whit Stillman and Hal Hartley. If nothing else is clear, it’s that the film’s most rewarding quality is its insistence on community: a work designed to be discovered, debated and argued over with friends. An endless cinematic tour through time, Pomp and Circumstance captures the particular malaise of a generation caught between ambition, exhaustion and the search for individuality.
TFFF are delighted to bring Anderson and Gray’s film, and its fresh coat of zillennial anxiety, across the Atlantic to an audience of Bethlehem slouchers and devotees of undergraduate brainrot.
This UK Premiere will be followed by Q&A with director Adrian Anderson.
- Jack Hewitt
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