WALKING TO WERNER

East Coast Premiere

When you first meet Linas in WALKING TO WERNER, you wonder, is this another of Werner Herzog's legendary stalker-fans? What is it about the enigmatic German director that compels people to idolize him with total disregard for social graces? This thought lasts about two seconds before you're completely engrossed in another enigmatic director-Linas Phillips.

Undergoing an existential and artistic crisis, Linas turns to the eccentric and passionate Herzog for inspiration. Herzog once walked from Munich to Paris to visit a dying friend. Stirred by this, Linas decides to walk from his home in Seattle to meet Herzog in Los Angeles. Only a few miles into the journey, Linas discovers that Herzog has just left to shoot a film in Thailand and will not be in Los Angeles when he arrives. Linas determines to walk anyway, disappointed but unwilling to give up.

In the 1200 miles of Linas' journey he battles traffic and the vulnerability of his body, and he meets other wanderers who enhance his journey. Herzog plays the willing muse, trading e-mails with Linas that give him much needed mental support on his journey.

As you get used to his grimacing mug you find yourself growing quite fond of him. "Go!" you shout, "You can get past the shin splints and get to a cheap motel and a burger! You can do it!" Linas' physical exhaustion leads to unlikely revelations about himself and his creative and spiritual path.

-Rose Vincelli

DIRECTOR BIO
Linas Phillips is a graduate of New York University's Experimental Theater Wing. He started out as a live performer of experimental theater and alternative comedy while living in New York City. Linas's day job for over five years was babysitting special needs kids, with whom he started making short videos. Since then he has made several short video projects, including USHTANKA (ENOUGH), a documentary about his 93-year-old Lithuanian grandmother, which he directed, shot and edited. WALKING TO WERNER is Linas's first feature film.

Print Source:
Dayna Hanson, Linas Films, LLC
915 31st Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
206.850.3613
dayna@33faintingspells.org

PRECEDED BY...ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN TOKYO
Jan Verbeek
GERMANY, 2004, 6 MINUTES

A Tokyo subway conductor packs an impossibly large number of Japanese commuters onto a train during rush hour in a film articulated through Jan Verbeek's artistic lens and shot in a single extended take.

Print Source:
Jan Verbeek
Kaiserstrasse 105
Bonn, 53113
Germany
+49 221 589 2007
info@janverbeek.de

6/18 at 6:30 PM

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