The next screening in the DOXA Documentary Film Festival series at Shadbolt Centre is on this week.
The Shadbolt Centre is presenting the Vancouver premiere of Jon Foy's Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles.
The film won the directing award for documentaries at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It tells the story of what happened when mysterious tiles began to appear on the streets and sidewalks of American cities. Few people took notice - but the cryptic messages about resurrecting the dead on the planet Jupiter caught the attention of one man.
"Justin Duerr set out to uncover the meaning of the tiles and fell down a veritable rabbit hole of curious allusions and references," a press release notes. "From David Mamet's one-act play 4AM, to Stanley Kubrick's science fiction masterwork 2001: A Space Odyssey, to the work of British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, the tiles hinted at larger forces at work. Shortwave radio and television broadcasts only added to the mystery."
Duerr and a group of similarly intrigued young men became obsessed with discovering the truth behind the missives.
"As much an elegant meditation on human strangeness as a conspiracy theory writ large, Resurrect Dead is an emotionally profound work about the desperate need to be heard and understood," the release explains.
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles is on Monday, Nov. 7 in the Studio Theatre at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, 6450 Deer Lake Ave., at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $12. Call 604-205-3000 or buy online at www.shadboltcentre.com.
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