Shot on the ultra cheap — $3000 — and improvised by the nonprofessional cast, Joe Swanberg's rueful look at three Chicago-based Web heads in their twenties systematically alienating the women in their lives is scruffy, loosely structured and piercingly perceptive about the ways in which technology that supposedly brings people together actually keeps them apart.
Musician Alex (composer/cowriter Kevin Bewersdorf), whose song collages incorporate sounds generated by homemade electronic instruments and video clips of friends — real and online — vocalizing, corresponds obsessively with "Internet girlfriends" like soft-core starlet Tessa (Kate Winterich). Convin...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
81 mins