Trickery Mimicry

TRICKERY MIMICRY
(2008, 80 min.)
directed by Garrett D. Tiedemann

It begins with the arrival of two travelers on an isolated farm inhabited by a single man. One of the travelers explains car trouble and asks to use a phone. Though seemingly strangers,  more history surrounds their relationship than is explained before the car’s arrival and the travelers settle in without much hesitation. Time passes and the travelers do not leave. One of them begins appreciating the environment gaining access to the daily routine while the other stays isolated and distant. With each step the farmer offers insight and knowledge furthering an awareness of the future they all must choose that in the end seems to have been forever present.

Part melodrama, part thriller and part slapstick comedy; Trickery Mimicry is a closed system of logic instilling each movement with questions and space. Like watching oil paint move on canvas it is a looking glass to the peripheries; thought patterns believed yet dismissed. It is a world often felt but rarely seen where mystery takes precedent and life progresses towards an indefinite end. Revealing itself in the movements of the characters,  the hiss of static and the feel of the surrounding world; Trickery Mimicry travels deep into an abyss searching for relationships and the time that surrounds them.

The filmmaker will be present for a Q and A following the film.