On_Line
Jed Weintrob directed this look at how Internet sex sites bring people together, while simultaneously keeping them apart. John Roth (Josh Hamilton) and his friend Moe Curley (Harrold Perrineau) spend a remarkable amount of time at Intercon-X, a pornographic website. All of the characters spend a great deal of time in cyberspace. Eventually, John shares a sexual act online with Jordan (Vanessa Ferlito), another regular at Intercon-X. Eventually Jordan and Moe engage in an actual affair, which finally forces all of the characters to deal with each other in the real world, and not just in cyberspace. This film was shot on digital video and was screened at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
Director: Jed Weintrob
Starring: Josh Hamilton, Harold Perrineau, Isabel Gillies, John Fleck, Vanessa Ferlito
A fine example of digital filmmaking, and Weintrob and his co-writer, Andrew Osborne, manage to raise some serious issues regarding the Internet without taking themselves too seriously.
Acted with enough zest by its cast to give these not especially endearing people a poignant human dimension.
The film's redeeming feature is that it knows how sad these people are, and finds the correct solution to their problems: They meet in the flesh.
Weintrob's stylish visuals mimic Web technologies, which succeed in making his characters seem all the more removed from reality. Now if someone would find a way to equip theater seats with a ''delete'' key, we could be rid of them completely.
Faces the same problem of all sex-themed films, in that cinematic sex is often unsexy.
Jed Weintrob
Cinequest San Jose Film Festival (2002)
Best Full-Length Fiction Film
Molodist International Film Festival (2002)
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