Strangeness is afoot. Most people don't notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and one that hits disturbingly close to home.
SYNOPSIS
Filmmaker Jon Foy and Philadelphia-based artist and musician Justin Duerr began planning a documentary film about the Toynbee Tiles in 2000. Five years later, they began filming their investigation of these strange street plaques embedded in the asphalt of major U.S. and South American urban intersections that had held Duerr's fascination for over a decade. Having appeared on hundreds of reported examples from the mid-1980s to present, the cryptic four-line message of the Toynbee Tiles read: "Toynbee Idea / In Kubrick's 2001 / Resurrect Dead / On Planet Jupiter". While the text on the plaques was clear enough, neither Duerr nor the numerous media outlets that had documented the phenomenon knew what these tiles meant, how or why they were installed, or who was responsible for them.
Sundance Screenings:
Monday, January 24th at 3:00pm - Holiday Village Cinema IV - Public Screening #1 (Premiere)
Monday, January 24th at 9:00pm - Holiday Village Cinema I - P&I Screening
Tuesday, January 25th at 5:30pm - Prospector Square Theatre - Public Screening #2
Wednesday, January 26th at 4:30pm - Broadway Centre Cinemas IV (SLC) - Public Screening #3
Thursday, January 27th at 9:00am - Yarrow Hotel Theatre - Public Screening #4
Saturday, January 29th at 12:30pm - Holiday Village Cinema II - Public Screening #5
For more information on this film, you can visit the official website at: http://www.Resurrect Dead.com
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