The Drivetime

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The Drivetime
TheDrivetime.jpg
Publicity still
Directed by Antero Alli
Written byAntero Alli
Rob Brezsny (add'l text)
Produced byAntero Alli
StarringMichael Douglas
Michael George
Susan Mansfield
Kristen Kosmas,
Cinematography Antero Alli
Edited by Antero Alli
John Comerford
Distributed byParaTheatrical ReSearch112905
Release date
  • August 30, 1995 (1995-08-30)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
BudgetUS$5,000[ citation needed ]

The Drivetime is a 1995 science fiction film directed, written, and produced by the Finnish-American filmmaker Antero Alli.

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Plot

The film opens in the year 2023 in the Nostradamus Islands. A librarian named Flux recalls a series of earthquakes that destroyed the continental United States. A totalitarian government took control of the United States following the disaster, but video footage from the pre-earthquake world was lost. The government sends Flux back in time to the Seattle, Washington, of 1999, to locate video footage of a riot that took place prior to the earthquake. He arrives in a society where telecommunications technology has replaced human interactions and where police operations are presented as television entertainment. He also discovers the government is putting forth footage of non-existent riots as a means of establishing law and order. [1] [2]

Production

The Drivetime was produced on a budget of US$5,000 (currently $9,000 [3] ). [4] Rob Brezsny, author of the syndicated newspaper column "Real Astrology", wrote the text for the film's psychedelic infomercials. [4]

Alli shot The Drivetime in five different video formats—BETA SP, HI-8, VHS, C-VHS, SVHS—and in Super 8 film. The riot footage was culled from the September 10, 1994, riots in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood that protested alleged police brutality. [5]

Release

The Drivetime was first screened at the Velvet Elvis Arts Theater in Seattle in August 1995. [6] The film had a limited theatrical release and was later distributed on DVD. [5]

The Drivetime received mixed reviews. Phil Hall praised it in Wired as "one of the most chilling yet innovative cinematic essays on the flaws of today's technology-obsessed society" [1] while Steven Seid of the Pacific Film Archive praised the film's "provocative visuals" and noted it was "at its best when plying its 'televisionary' speculations about a spiritual resurgence that will overwhelm virtuality." [7] However, Robert Firsching, writing for the Amazing World of Cult Movies, dismissed The Drivetime as a “silly mess". [8]

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  2. Allmovie overview
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  4. 1 2 "Independents’ Day", Jesse Walker, Reason Magazine, November 1996
  5. 1 2 “The Drivetime,” ParaTheatrical ReSearch
  6. “Shorts, Shorts Everywhere As New Bugs Makes Debut,” Seattle Times, August 30, 1995
  7. Seid, Steve (ndg). "Film Programs: Size Matters Part II: Feature-Length Experimental Video: The Drivetime". Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive . Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  8. Firschling, Robert "The Drivetime" Amazing World of Cult Movies