LAND OF NOD
Produced by Bennett Elliott
Written and Directed by Robert Kolodny
SYNOPSIS:
Walt, a young naïve journalist from the Midwest, finds himself traveling on a cross-country bus to New York. His purpose? To discover the truth and passion coursing through the veins, the pulse, of the city. As he steps off the bus in midtown’s Port Authority, Walt encounters a beautiful free-spirited artist, Jane.
Jane is young and mysterious. She leads Walt to her temporary home, a commune-like apartment in Brooklyn where artists, musicians, poets, filmmakers, and performers live together in creative harmony. The owners of the apartment, three radically different political activists, adopt Walt into their circle of abstract misfits and expose the workings of the social system. Walt finds himself living and working within a social system that he can no longer obey- and decides to join the group by taking a journey of self-discovery.
Over the course of the film, Walt’s world expands beyond what he was taught in the rural suburbs. Present day New York sets the backdrop for the exchange of ideas, paintings, poems, and protests. Walt comes to experience firsthand the effects of defending his rights as an artist- and finds himself in a constant battle between who he was and who he hopes to be.
Living among a family of radicals who constantly alter his world perception, Walt comes to understand the correlation between art and ideas- and faces the shocking reality that sometimes, family isn’t just blood related.
