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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 34 m
For the Plasma

Summary A digital-pastoral drama of friendship, landscape and technology, For the Plasma begins as the story of two young women (Anabelle LeMieux and Rosalie Lowe) employed as forest-fire lookouts in Northern Maine, and ends in a hundred places at once. Along the way, the girls make financial predictions based on surveillance footage of the surr...

Directed By: Bingham Bryant, Kyle Molzan

Written By: Bingham Bryant

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Factory 25
  • 1 h 34 m

For the Plasma

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary A digital-pastoral drama of friendship, landscape and technology, For the Plasma begins as the story of two young women (Anabelle LeMieux and Rosalie Lowe) employed as forest-fire lookouts in Northern Maine, and ends in a hundred places at once. Along the way, the girls make financial predictions based on surveillance footage of the surr...

Directed By: Bingham Bryant, Kyle Molzan

Written By: Bingham Bryant

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
51
40% Positive
4 Reviews
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
30% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
51
40% Positive
4 Reviews
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
30% Negative
3 Reviews

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90
Jul 20, 2016
The movie’s visual prose, aided by simple but fanciful camera work, has an original, giddy spin; Bryant and Molzan’s smooth and floaty direction sublimates the rocky landscape into something disturbingly ethereal.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
80
Jul 20, 2016
For the Plasma finds genuine, almost innocent-seeming delight in its own swerves in style and rhythm.
By Danny King FULL REVIEW
75
Jul 20, 2016
The meta-oddity of For the Plasma is certainly not for everyone, but it’s such a charmingly strange film, a movie that feels devoid of the cynicism that often plagues every genre from which it cribs, but particularly modern sci-fi and low-budget cinema. It is a movie that is happily strange, joyfully bizarre and particularly unforgettable.
By Brian Tallerico FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 20, 2016
For the Plasma is a film with no shortage of ambition, taste (Maine looks great in 16-millimeter) or ideas. It’s a shame those ideas are so incoherent.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 20, 2016
Only faintly touching upon notions of intuitive collaboration and inspiration, For the Plasma wanders about as if it’s in a fog, ultimately to the point of pointlessness.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
25
Jul 20, 2016
Three cheers, then, for Bingham Bryant and Kyle Molzan, whose joint first effort, For The Plasma, ranks among the year’s most singular movies, even as it also ranks among the year’s most painful movies to endure.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW
25
Jul 19, 2016
The film, whose disparate narrative threads unsurprisingly never connect, drowns in weirdness for its own sake.
By Carson Lund FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Artists Public Domain, Cochin Moon Productions
Release Date Jul 22, 2016
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Jeonju Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Nashville Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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