Sundance Day 2: Braden King’s HERE

Before the unveiling of the world premiere for Braden King’s HERE – patrons at the Library Center had the opportunity to immerse themselves in the HERE experience. You see, the film has mutated into several forms — next week Sundance hosts Here [ The Story Sleeps ] a live, three-screen, transmedia presentation. Prior to the world preem, projected on the screen, folks could text any city in the world and we were basically presented with a visual roaming device using Google Maps satellite positioning — it might appear trivial, but it allowed us to gain insight into the central character’s (Ben Foster) background as a mapping engineer and, in many ways demonstrates how the filmmaker/artist allowed this oeuvre to not be “self-contained”. After Sundance, the film is heading off to the Berlin Film Festival where his film will show in the Panorama section. Here’s the post-screening Q&A. Look for our review and interview shortly.