Nick Newman

For Sterling, a sort of present-day Alice, the graveyard Lotus she redeems becomes a totem, a saturated phenomenon permitting her to move freely in time on a phantom road. It is a sort of Ford but never a DeLorean. A Southern woman with a fair deal of historical baggage and deep secrets, Sterling journeys back to her rural home, the Lotus takes her through the shadow of the valley into the adjoining worlds of the living and the dead. Desiring to become an F1 driver, Sterling must go fast/hard, against/through all tunnels imagined or concrete.

As a young hacker challenges the corporation behind Meme—a drug that mines users’ psyches to deliver personalized psychedelic trips and hyper-targeted ads—intersecting stories unfold in strange, fractured rhythms.

An American director, hired by German television to make a film about 9/11, re-stages a controversial photograph taken along the Brooklyn waterfront soon after the collapse of the World Trade Center.

Chicago, IL. Happy hour. Andrew's friendship with his colleague Rich nearly unravels when he clues him in to his secret obsession.