Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding

Director: Leslie Thornton

2017 / 95min / DCP

Begun with 1985’s Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue and still ongoing, Thornton’s open-ended, always-under-construction film cycle, which bridges the analog and digital eras, features siblings Janis and Donald Reading as its protagonists, two children abandoned in an eerily empty, media-saturated landscape. “Jettisons any notion of technological or social progress in favor of a collapsing of the future and past into a dystopian, postindustrial present; it explores the convergence of human consciousness with electronic systems; and it raids a variety of genres for its formal devices.”—Ed Halter, Artforum