Lapsis

Review Winner - Jury's Choice Award - Bucheon Int'l. Fantastic Film Festival Nominated - Grand Jury Award - SXSW Nominated - Best First Screenplay - Indie Spirit Awards Official Selection - Fantasia Official Selection - Cleveland Int'l. Film Festival Official Selection - Nantucket Film Festival --- A refreshing instance of world building where the emphasis is on satirical wit, activist smarts and character, it feels like one of those movies we'll be looking at decades from now and, however tech has transformed our lives, saying 'Yeah, Lapsis had that.' - Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times Cloaking outrage in humor, Hutton fashions a world of scams, pulling financial markets and the wellness industry, middle men and monopolies into a tumble-dryer of ideas. Lapsis isn't a polemic, it's a caricature, and all the more likable for having its claws sheathed in velvet. - Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times ...entertainingly original.... This tale of a floundering gig-economy worker straddles both the bleak present-tense reality of Ken Loach's Sorry We Missed You and the subversive near-future political satire of Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You while arriving at a whimsical critique all its own. - Dennis Harvey, Variety Commanded by nuanced performances and smartly written by Hutton, Lapsis is a tremendous, radicalizing sci-fi project that not only feeds you anger but offers solutions to its existential crises deep in the American wilderness. --Clement Tyler Obropta, Film Inquiry A sharp take-down of unfettered crony capitalism. - Christopher Reed, Hammer to Nail A smart class-conscious sci-fi parable. - John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter Noah Hutton's feature debut is an ambitious blend of modern technology and timeless concerns, bolstered by a winking good humor. - Kate Erbland, Indiewire Hutton scores a direct hit on the persistent machinations of corporations to nickel and dime everyone at each turn. The ridiculous complexity of life in systems designed for other systems instead of humans is ridiculed to great effect. --- Bradley Gibson, Film Threat Product Description New York, an alternate present: the quantum computing revolution has begun and investors are lining their pockets in the quantum trading market. Building the network, though, requires miles of infrastructure to be laid between huge magnetic cubes by "cablers" - unprotected gig workers who compete against robots to pull wires over rough terrain.Queens delivery man Ray Tincelli (Dean Imperial) is skeptical of new technology, and the buy-in to start cabling is steep, but he struggles to support himself and his ailing younger brother, who suffers from a mysterious illness. So when Ray scores a shady permit, he believes their fortunes may have finally changed. What he doesn't expect is to be pulled into a conspiracy involving hostile cablers, corporate greed, and the mysterious "Lapsis" who may have previously owned his medallion. Called "a smart class-conscious sci-fi parable" by The Hollywood Reporter, LAPSIS is a darkly comic and timely look at the gig economy and the failed utopian promises of big tech.
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