“A hallucinogenic boggler…a spellbinding and beautiful experience.”
– Forced Exposure
“Reiss’ fast paced film views like a Gumby episode that’s gone terribly, terribly wrong.”
– Steven Mikulan LA Weekly Pick of the Week
A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief is a fractured narrative featuring large anthropomorphic robots constructed by Survival Research Laboratories (SRL). Living in their own fictional world devoid of humankind, the machines act out scenarios of perpetual torment, exasperated consumption, and tragic recognition. The film is a fast-paced glimpse into the disturbing nightmare of machine psychology.
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR
Short Film
Panorama/Berlinale, Sundance, New Directors/New Films, Chicago International, Montreal, San Francisco International, Sao Paulo, Edinburgh