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Infest Wisely: a lo-fi sci-fi movie in seven episodes (Preview Only)

Jim Munroe

2007, 86:00 minutes, colour

TAPECODE 932.09

There's a new, chewable nanotechnology that lets you take photos with your eyes, cures cancer and eliminates body odour. But the early adopters are realizing they got extra "features" they didn't count on. And no one told them once they spread through the bloodstream, it's harder to uninstall than your average computer virus.

INFEST WISELY is a feature length movie in seven episodes, each with different directors but all written by novelist Jim Munroe. Munroe met the six other directors through his Novel Amusements project, an annual DVDzine tagged "unapologetically lo-fi, inventive short video" by the Toronto Star. "I didn't want to work with just one of them for an entire feature," he said, "It seemed too big of an imposition. Plus, each of them had a special talent or ability I was excited to write for."

"It was awesome," Munroe enthused. "Jon made a fake ATM machine from scratch. Kirby shot a sex scene the rest of us were too nervous to. Craig crafted a bunch of amazing special effects. Chris staged a punk rock show. Rose got us a tiny city to rampage through. And Benny did some chase scene stunts with his crazy art-bikes."

Munroe wrote the seven episodes to be stories unto themselves, with intertwining characters. But watched together they chart the social and cultural changes wreaked by the tiniest product in history.

The seven directors:
Jon Sasaki's ("Obsolete")
Kirby Ferguson ("Orientated")
Craig Macnaughton ("Early Adopter")
Chris McCawley ("Spawning Rebellion")
Jim Munroe ("Sublime Algorithm")
Rose Bianchini ("General Chaos")
Benny Zenga ("Leveller")

http://infestwisely.com

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