Clandestine, a 30-minute film by Gideon Carson Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater, will receive its first Mobile screening, presented by the South Alabama Film Festival, on Saturday, April 3 at 5 PM in Bernheim Hall, followed by a brief Q&A.
Clandestine had its world premiere at the International Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) last November. There, it was one of 17 shorts in competition amongst the over 300 films chosen for the world’s largest documentary film festival. Since then, it has played at Cinequest (San Jose, CA); the Thin Line Festival (Denton, TX); on the traveling Black Maria Film and Video Festival (where it won the Jury Prize); and is scheduled to play at both the Indie Grits Film Festival (Columbia, SC) and at the Atlanta Film Festival.
Clandestine, directed by Gideon C. Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater
Based on previews, we expected a technically and intellectually riveting film. It was – and by the overused “riveting” we mean it will capture your attention completely. As Cinequest describes it: “Clandestine (is) a virtuosic mini-masterpiece about family and identity.” It sentimentally reminds us that, for-better-or-worse, the days of Fleming and Ludlum were victims of the end of the Cold War (although not necessarily in reality) . But this is not just a documentary – it is an examination of deceit and “ciphering” in familial communications as well as international espionage, of apathy and adultery, that will likely hit any reasonably self-reflecting husband and father hard and unexpectedly. We look forward to its screening in Mobile.
Gideon Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater’s film Clandestine has been been accepted to three American festivals for the month of February.
Thin Line Film Festival – 3rd Year – Denton, TX Black Maria Film + Video Festival – 29th Year – Nationwide (Touring) Cinequest Film Festival – 20th Year – San Jose, CA
