MicroCinema Scene

Frontier is weird. Now that could be a good thing. It could be a bad thing. Or it could have no true bearing on whether the project is good or bad. In this case, it’s a good thing because being weird is the only saving grace for this project. If you like to see a man humping the ground or watching a man in a bigfoot-esque costume break a raw egg on the head of a woman dressed in Russian garb, well, then this film is for you. If you want some sort of plot, meaning, goal or sense of satisfaction, then you should look elsewhere.

As far as I can tell, Frontier, produced by Nathan Zeller and written and directed by David Zeller, is about two government employees from the fictional country of Bulbovia who are on a mission to explore an unknown area of their small, socialistic country. There are bouts of humor in this odd piece, but the laughs or interest are few and far between. The odd range of characters, beyond the two government explorers, include the previously mentioned man in bigfoot-eque costume, a slow-witted man in a tool shed, a wife who sold her twin children and arrives floating in a river in an aluminum tub and some guy wearing a white robe with a hairy mask. If this inspires you to risk 84 minutes of your life, go for it. If not, avoid it.

On a side note, this was the first DVD I’ve viewed from Film Threat DVD. The package and design are excellent, but I was disappointed by the quality of the project, both technically and in content. Film Threat DVD is attempting to find a distribution channel for microcinema projects and for that I’m grateful. I only hope their other offerings are far more satisfying.

One star.

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