Film
OMG/HAHAHA
Cert:(adv 15)
Dir. Morgan Jon Fox
USA , 74 mins, 2008
Cast: Suzi Crashcourse, Andy Harper, Ed Porter
Hailed by critics as the Kids of our time, and perhaps the most successful attempt to make a movie for and of the ‘Facebook generation’, OMG/HaHaHa - its title taken from txtspk slang (“oh my god” followed by laughter) – certainly captures the zeitgeist, but displays sufficient wit and skill to ensure it's no mere time capsule compendium of current fads and trends.
It's the third feature – after 2003's Blue Citrus Hearts and 2005's Away (A)wake – from Tennessean 29-year-old writer/director Morgan Jon Fox, who describes himself as “a film school dropout who has gained his kicks amongst the rough and edgy stylings of the Memphis film scene, which has produced filmmakers like Craig Brewer (Hustle and Flow) and Ira Sachs (Forty Shades of Blue).” He makes films under the banner of Sawed-Off Collaboratory Productions – see also this year's BIFF Uncharted selection Team Picture – and his latest work so dominated the awards at his home-town film festival last year that it was dubbed the ‘Titanic of Indie Memphis.’
“A tender and impressionistic film structured as a series of video blog entries and stream-of-consciousness vignettes” about families, friends, lovers (often, but not exclusively, gay) and loners in midtown Memphis, the shoestring-budgeted but beautifully shot and edited OMG/HaHaHa shares some of the irresistible anything-can-happen-day urban atmosphere of Chris Fuller's Florida-set Loren Cass (BIFF Uncharted 2007).
Former New York Times critic and Indie Memphis juror Elvis Mitchell described the film as “both playful and innovative. It feels like something that really is the next step – a film that could play just as well on a laptop or a cell phone as in a theater. Moviemakers have been reaching to capture that for several years now, and this achieves that feeling.” Praise from Elvis in Memphis - it really doesn't come much better than that.
Neil Young
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