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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
USA, 2006, 81 MIN
DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS PETERSON
WORLD PREMIERE
“McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled up,” begins director, writer, and producer Nicholas Peterson’s disturbing, strange tale of a genius inventor (Christopher Masterson, Malcolm in the Middle). We witness his naïveté crumble as he is burned too often by those who steal his “intellectual property.” He becomes so obsessed with his latest invention, the Cube, that he goes to extremes to protect his property rights. Mixing a dangerous cocktail of Cold War paranoia and a naïve belief in progress through science and technology, the drama creates a world of surreal paranoia reminiscent in its style of weird roads traveled by David Lynch. It also offers a suffocating 1950s-1960s period recreation, providing an intelligent and intriguing commentary for our current climate, in which, if you’re not with us, you’re against us. As our idealistic inventor, the lone voice against the status quo, sinks into creepiness and delusion, we’re forced to confront the twisted ugly reality of conspiracy that’s more than a theory.