Kelly Sears brings us ‘Voice on the Line,’ an animated, experimental social commentary that was conceived thanks to Sears’ interest in the Cold War and ungrounded paranoia. Sears, an avid collector of media artifacts, finds uses for cowboys, astronauts, aerobic instructors, fading starlets, and other thrift store goods in her animations.
'Voice On The Line'
Feb 8
Chapter six of 1934’s original “Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers Conquer the Universe” Serial. Barin decodes Flash’s laser code just seconds before shooting down the ship Flash had escaped on with Zarkov & Dale. No matter, Ming’s evil genius has finished projectiles made of fire metal, which Ming wants to target at earth, but to test them Ming needs a subject. Ming sends forces to kidnap his daughter (Barin’s wife) so he can blow up Barin’s kingdom without feeling bad. Professor Zarkov has a way to defuse the burning projectiles, but someone (Flash) has to tempt fate to try and contain it’s massive energy, once a fiery inferno has started.
John Travolta plays a wise-cracking top U.S. agent who’s sent to Paris to prevent a terrorist attack, where he is partnered with a by-the-book low level embassy operative.
The notorious District 13 is a racially charged ghetto populated by violent drug dealing gangs and vicious killers. Despite government promises to maintain order, the state of the district has deteriorated, and a group of corrupt cops and elected officials are conspiring to cause civil unrest in D13, looking for an excuse to raze the area with atomic weapons and cash in on its redevelopment after the site cools off. Crusading police officer Damien Tomasso (Cyril Raffaelli) and reformed vigilante Leito (parkour originator David Belle) are the only hopes for the district’s inhabitants.