It's 2017. Delaware County in upstate New York has long been officially closed due to a variety of factors, including the Japanese invention of a superior milk cow, which has forced the local dairy farmers out of business. The federal government figured no one would notice when they closed the County, and they turned out to be right. County residents have ultimately no choice but to resort to frontier, survivalist living. Also in 2017, the movie LOG is a smash hit sensation, number one at the box office worldwide. The film features one, 2 1/2 hour-long, shot of as log with leaves blowing across it, edited down from a legendary 571 scenes.
Although the world clamors for information about LOG's director, Art Angst, he is all but an enigma. Everything about Angst is speculation, other than that what is included in his unofficial bio., which states Angst was born in East Rockaway, Queens, and that at some later point he made LOG. Rumor abounds that he is living in seclusion in the uncharted wilderness that is now Delaware County.
Meanwhile, well-meaning but financially on-the-ropes documentary filmmaker Hank Braddigan receives a mysterious package requesting that he come to Oneonta, a sprawling frontier town adjacent to Delaware County. Hank is convinced that this is a lead to finding Art Angst, and his big break, so he sells his prized East Newfoundland Founding Fathers Film Festival Golden Scrod trophy for Best Documentary, which he won for SHOE BOY: The Tom McCan Story, to get to Oneonta.
Once Hank reaches Oneonta his life is instantly imperiled, as he is punched out in a bar by a bitterly offended LOG fan, and his life threatened by Paco Levenstein, a desperate unemployed hairdresser brandishing unlicensed electric hair clippers. He then meets Sidney Lake, who claims to have been Angst's film editor on 134 of the 571 deleted scenes in LOG, including the legendary deleted sci-fi subplot, LOG VS. THE SPACE INTRUDERS. Lake promises Hank access to Art Angst. Hank calls his crew, Sound Man Jake Shempp, and Cinematographer Linda Hopkins, to join him in his quest. They do, and endure a perilous trek through Delaware County, encountering a whole lot of guys named Joe before reaching the mysterious film director they seek.
What Hank and his crew discover when they reach their destination is much, much more than what they had bargained for. What they find changes their lives, the lives of the inhabitants of one very remote, windswept northern County, and possibly the course of New York State history as a whole.
hey uncle steve its zach NICE TRAILOR!
madballers99 4 years ago
Thanks, Zach -- more to come this week!
shoeboy59 4 years ago