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''Movement and Location'' (also called ''Movement + Location'') is an American
science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imagination, imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, Paral ...
movie set in modern-day
Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Kings County is the most populous Administrative divisions of New York (state)#County, county in the State of New York, ...
, directed by
Alexis Boling William Alexander "Alexis" Boling (born May 18, 1979) is an American filmmaker, musician, and founder of production company Harmonium Films & Music based in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for directing the independent science fiction featu ...
. It stars
Bodine Boling Bodine Alexander Boling (born August 16, 1982) is an American writer and filmmaker. She is best known for writing, producing, starring in and editing the independent science fiction feature '' Movement and Location''. Early life Boling was bo ...
, Catherine Missal, Brendan Griffin, Anna Margaret Hollyman, David Andrew Macdonald and John Dapolito. ''Movement and Location'' tells the story of Kim Getty, an immigrant from 400 years in the future who is sent back in time to live an easier life. It premiered at the 2014
Brooklyn Film Festival The Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF), prior to 2011 called the Brooklyn International Film Festival (BiFF) is an independent film festival held every June in Brooklyn, New York. Started by Marco Ursino, Susan Mackell, Abe Schrager, and Mario Pegoraro ...
where it won the Audience Award, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score.


Plot summary

Kim Getty is an immigrant from 400 years in the future, who has traveled back in time to live out an easier life. It turns out to be an isolating, one-way trip, but in the three years since her arrival Kim has built a life that she is almost satisfied with. She has a job, an apartment with a roommate, and is beginning to fall in love. But when she encounters a teenage girl who is also from the future, Kim’s remade sense of self is put to the test. The girl leads Kim to her long-lost husband, now 20 years older than her and maladjusted to contemporary society, and Kim’s carefully reinvented identity starts to unravel. Kim finds herself needing to choose between two completely different lives, but as her secrets are exposed, the real decision is what she is willing to do to survive.


Production

''Movement and Location'' was filmed over 18 days, predominantly in Brooklyn. Local filming locations included Prospect Park, the Promenade in Brooklyn Heights, and Ft. Greene boutique Thistle & Clover. One filming location burned down shortly after filming took place. Bodine Boling said that if the fire had happened two weeks earlier, the movie would have been put on indefinite hold. ''Movement and Location'' was the first film that used crowdfunding website Seed and Spark to premiere at a festival.


Music

Dan Tepfer Dan Tepfer (born 1982 in Paris, France) is a French-American jazz pianist and composer. He is best known for his 2011 album ''Goldberg Variations/Variations'' and his 2019 multimedia project ''Natural Machines''. Biography Dan Tepfer grew up in ...
composed ''Movement and Locations score. The film also features original song "Don't Skip a Beat" by
Imani Coppola Imani Francesca Coppola (born April 6, 1978) Imani Coppola profile
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Reception

As the
British Film Institute The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, ...
's ''Sight & Sound'' international film magazine describes, "The drama that emerges from these broken, fugitive lives is as an allegory of exile, immigration and assimilation, while defamiliarising the things (food, water, space) that we take for granted in our own times." ''This Week In New York'' praised the film upon its release, asserting, "Despite its sci-fi plot, ''Movement and Location'' is a gently paced, well-acted, and honest depiction of relationships and responsibility in modern-day Brooklyn."


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* {{IMDb title, 2734938 2014 films 2010s English-language films 2014 science fiction films American science fiction films 2010s American films