Compared too Ben Hicks other film project- Pea vs. Carrot- this is a far meatier affair. Square Pegs marks a far more ambitious effort in both narrative and scope. The film starts out simply enough with a rather mundane family's car trip through the city seen from the perspective of the eldest girl of the family. Then after the credits role it suddenly things cut to a rather dingy and bizarre restaurant that's more then just a restaurant. Here the audience gets its first glimpse of the entire family including the little sister with the rabbit ears as well as the pudgy mother. Things delve into the creepily bizarre as patrons float by and quick images of the restaurants chef (who has a creepy big nose works in a dirty kitchen right out of the next Saw movie) cut creating an uneasy atmosphere.

 

 

This film isn't really a film, hell it isn't even a short film, but rather a handful of short scenes strung together following the romantic anecdotes of two hipster lovers. There isn't really a sense of time place, but rather a scatter shot of different scenes that don't correlate to form a story. The audience gets a sense of the sort of irreverent attraction between the two romantic leads, but there's not really any deeper connection. In some ways it kind of reminds of a severely truncated version of the Indie film Eagle Vs. Shark which also featured a similar post-modern romantic mash-up. We get scenes of the two couples in parties, after parties, including an especially charming shot of a night after with each person holding the other while a stream oh yellow day glow vomit lies between them in their lovers embrace.

Saneamento básico (Basic Sanitation, The Movie)

In the same year that INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence published their controversial book with South End Press, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (2007), Jorge Furtado directs this complementary film, Saneamento básico (Basic Sanitation, The Movie) as another feature of the Museum of Modern Art's 6th annual Brazilian Film festival, Premier Brazil 2008. The premise for the film is its' placement in a small Italo Brazilian community where everyone aggressively knows their neighbor and aims to rid the smelly air by digging a pit, adding a bridge, and creating a pipeline to maintain sewage sanitation. The development of this sewage project, however could not be funded by the state. Instead, the funding had already been allocated towards a grant for broadcasting an educational video.