Name: LOLA
Start: 2023-10-05T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Monty Hall

LOLA

WFMU

What would you do if you could intercept radio and television broadcasts from the future?

Monty Hall

The debut film from Irish director Andrew Legge is a pacy, thrillingly inventive found-footage mockumentary...1941, sisters Thom and Mars have built a machine, LOLA, that can intercept radio and TV broadcasts from the future. This allows them to listen to iconic music before it has been made, place bets knowing what the outcome will be and embrace their inner punk well before the movement came into existence. But with the Second World War escalating, the sisters decide to use the machine for good to intercept information from the future that could help with military intelligence. The machine initially proves to be a huge success, rapidly twisting the fortunes of the war against the Nazis. While Thom becomes intoxicated by LOLA, Mars begins to realise the terrible consequences of its power.&#x27;LOLA&#x27;, takes found-footage and runs with it like a science experiment on YouTube. The two would-be documentarians, played with gusto by Emma Appleton and Stefanie Martini, have a genuine reason for filming everything, and it makes sense. They wish to document their experiment, and their earnestness in this effort shines through. Of course, science experiments involving time travel always have unintended consequences and this is where &#x27;LOLA&#x27; gets particularly smart and inventive. The whole movie is, in effect, a warning left behind to not meddle in the past. Throughout the grainy, black-and-white footage, we&#x27;re shown newsreels from an alternate past, one where krautrock is discovered four decades early and World War II goes very much not as expected.Director: Andrew LeggeActors: Emma Appleton, Stefanie MartiniGenre(s): Documentary, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller, WarRunning time: 80 minutes

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