From: Steve Polta (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Jan 21 2009 - 10:43:22 PST
I would go through www.gibbschapman.com contact email at the bottom of the page.
His filmography page has this to say about the film (which is identified only as "…higher animals"):
Doomed to be mysteriously connected to the essence of life, square peg Audrey Muse wrestles undauntedly with the future machine of western civilization. Squatting with a bumbling undesirable and an obsessive criminal handyman in the anarchistic zone outside the new world order, she naively launches illegal social commentary. And in a world without plants, animals or reliable oxygen, begins the inevitable journey into cynicism and disillusionment.
——Steve Polta
--- On Wed, 1/21/09, Ron Toole <email suppressed> wrote:
> From: Ron Toole <email suppressed>
> Subject: Re: Apocalypse films
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 9:13 AM
> Steve or Gibbs-
> Know of a resource for purchasing a DVD copy of
> …AND THEN GOD BECAME DISORIENTED IN THE FOREST OF HIGHER
> ANIMALS
>
> ?
> I've gotta see this one...
> thanks,
> R. Toole
> Washington DC
>
> --- On Tue, 1/20/09, Steve Polta
> <email suppressed> wrote:
> From: Steve Polta <email suppressed>
> Subject: Re: Apocalypse films
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 9:28 PM
>
> Another pretty good set-in-San Francisco and (sorta) shot
> like a documentary is
> the clumsily-titled …AND THEN GOD BECAME DISORIENTED IN
> THE FOREST OF HIGHER
> ANIMALS, a virtually unknown (at this late date)
> feature-length film by Gibbs
> Chapman, produced under the moniker "J.G.
> Chapman" I believe, and
> "released" circa 1995. It's basically a
> loose-jointed dystopian
> sci-fi film that plays like a shaggy dog kind of slacker
> vehicle. A group of
> vague rebels live outside the corporate/government
> city/state scavenging and
> building things, having vaguely existentialist
> conversations. It's
> beautifully shot and has a nice slow pacing and uses all
> sorts of actual
> (clearly un-permitted) locations (SF airport parking lot;
> BART; middle of the
> street downtown), kind of transforming San Francisco and
> environs into an empty
> future city. I thought it was a great film when it came
> out. I saw it twice in
> '95; can't say I heard of a screening since, or
> outside the Bay Area,
> although it's hard to believe.
>
> Deep trivia junkies will no doubt thrill to note that the
> film stars one-time
> Werepad impresario Jacques Boyreau, himself a maker of such
> underground classics
> as PLANET MANSON, HIPPIE PORN (disputed), and IN.
>
> ———steve polta
>
>
> --- On Tue, 1/20/09, k. a.r. <email suppressed>
> wrote:
>
> > From: k. a.r. <email suppressed>
> > Subject: Re: Apocalypse films
> > To: email suppressed
> > Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 5:02 PM
> > there is an independent film that I got from netflix.
> > It is called ever since the world ended, and is set in
> San
> > Francisco.
> > Shot documentary style.
> >
> > this is a really good one, too. Its animated. Also has
> a
> > cool David Gilmore/Bowie soundtrack. Its about 45
> minutes
> > long, I think.
> >
> > "When the Wind Blows depicts a nuclear attack on
> the
> > UK by the Soviet Union from the viewpoint of a retired
> > couple, Jim and Hilda Bloggs. The Bloggs live in rural
>
> > Sussex
> > and exhibit considerable confusion regarding the
> nature and
> > seriousness
> > of their situation, which is sometimes used to
> generate
> > gentle comedy
> > as well as darker elements. As the novel progresses
> their
> > situation
> > becomes steadily more hopeless as they suffer from the
> > effects of radiaiton sickness. The film ends on an
> extremely
> > bleak note, with them both dying as they pray."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Kristie Reinders, B.F.A.
> >
> > Director of Cinematography, Electric Visions
> >
> > Curator and Head Projectionist, Electric Mural Project
> >
> > The Mission, San Francisco, CA
> >
> >
> >
> > 'A first class technician should work best under
> > pressure.'
> >
> > - - - Issac Asimov
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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