Movement and Location

Movement and Location (also called Movement + Location) is an American science fiction movie set in modern-day Brooklyn, directed by Alexis Boling. It stars Bodine Boling, Catherine Missal, Brendan Griffin, Anna Margaret Hollyman, David Andrew Macdonald and John Dapolito. Movement and Location tells the story of Kim Getty, an immigrant from 400 years in the future who is sent back in time to live an easier life. It premiered at the 2014 Brooklyn Film Festival where it won the Audience Award, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score.[1]

Movement and Location
Film poster
Directed byAlexis Boling
Produced bySerena Hedison
Written byBodine Boling
Starring
  • Bodine Boling
  • Catherine Missal
  • Brendan Griffin
  • David Andrew Macdonald
Music byDan Tepfer
CinematographyAlexis Boling
Edited byBodine Boling
Release date
  • May 2014 (2014-05)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot summary

Kim Getty is an immigrant from 400 years in the future, who has traveled back in time to live out an easier life. It turns out to be an isolating, one-way trip, but in the three years since her arrival Kim has built a life that she is almost satisfied with. She has a job, an apartment with a roommate, and is beginning to fall in love.

But when she encounters a teenage girl who is also from the future, Kim’s remade sense of self is put to the test. The girl leads Kim to her long-lost husband, now 20 years older than her and maladjusted to contemporary society, and Kim’s carefully reinvented identity starts to unravel.

Kim finds herself needing to choose between two completely different lives, but as her secrets are exposed, the real decision is what she is willing to do to survive.

Production

Movement and Location was filmed over 18 days, predominantly in Brooklyn. Local filming locations included Prospect Park, the Promenade in Brooklyn Heights, and Ft. Greene boutique Thistle & Clover.[2] One filming location burned down shortly after filming took place. Bodine Boling said that if the fire had happened two weeks earlier, the movie would have been put on indefinite hold.[3]

Movement and Location was the first film that used crowdfunding website Seed and Spark to premiere at a festival.[4]

Music

Dan Tepfer composed Movement and Location's score. The film also features original song "Don't Skip a Beat"[5] by Imani Coppola.

Reception

As the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound international film magazine describes, "The drama that emerges from these broken, fugitive lives is as an allegory of exile, immigration and assimilation, while defamiliarising the things (food, water, space) that we take for granted in our own times."[6]

This Week In New York praised the film upon its release, asserting, "Despite its sci-fi plot, Movement and Location is a gently paced, well-acted, and honest depiction of relationships and responsibility in modern-day Brooklyn."[7]

Festivals & Awards
FestivalRecognition & AwardsYear
Brooklyn Film FestivalAudience Award, Best Screenplay, Best Original Score[8]2014
Indie Memphis Film FestivalExcellence in Filmmaking, Best Poster[9]2014
The Rome International Film FestivalBest Narrative Feature, Audience Award2014
Alhambra Theatre Film FestivalBest Actress2015
Chesapeake Film Festival [10]2014
Woods Hole Film Festival [11]2014
Atlanta Film Festival [12]2015
Sci-Fi-London Film Festival [13]2015

References
  1. "Movement and Location". Brooklyn Film Festival. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  2. Perlman, Matthew. "Time after time: Borough-made film features Brooklyn time-traveler". The Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  3. Walker, Doug. "'Movement and Location' screening at Rome International Film Festival tonight". Rome News-Tribune. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  4. Stewart, Henry. "5 Movies You Should See at the Brooklyn Film Festival". The L Magazine. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  5. Coppola, Imani. "Don't Skip A Beat!". Soundcloud. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  6. Bitel, Anton. "Wormholes that turned: Sci-Fi-London 2015". BFI. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  7. "Brooklyn Film Festival: Movement and Location". This Week In New York. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  8. Lindsay, Taylor. "Here Are The 'Formula' Brooklyn Film Fest Winners". Indiewire. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  9. Beifuss, John. "Indie Memphis Award Winners, Encore Screenings Announced". The Commercial Appeal Memphis. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  10. Moore, Henley. "Screenwriter returns home for Chesapeake Film Festival". The Star Democrat. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  11. "2014 Festival Schedule". Woods Hole Film Festival. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  12. "Movement and Location". Atlanta Film Festival. Archived from the original on 5 February 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  13. "Movement + Location". Sci-Fi-London. Archived from the original on 4 February 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
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