{"id":11284,"date":"2015-11-22T09:07:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T17:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=11284"},"modified":"2015-12-10T07:21:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T15:21:57","slug":"swerve-film-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?page_id=11284","title":{"rendered":"Swerve Film Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Featured Student: Zach Horton<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n

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While working on his Ph.D. in English at UC Santa Barbara,\u00a0Zach Horton – who also served for a year as the EHI Graduate Fellow – directed a number of film projects. Two especially noteworthy ones are the documentary Whatever Happened to Solar Innovation?<\/em> and Swerve<\/em>, a\u00a0feature film serialized into ten chapters\u00a0that imagines life in a\u00a0future post-apocalyptic California. Scroll down to watch both.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n

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Swerve<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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Swerve<\/em> is a nonprofit Collaborative Media Commons project that was created\u00a0at UC Santa Barbara. An interdisciplinary team of graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, and film industry professionals collaborated to produce this feature film, which is serialized into ten chapters, each approximately 20 minutes in length. Scroll down to watch\u00a0all\u00a0ten chapters (plus a trailer).<\/p>\n

Directed by\u00a0Zach Horton;\u00a0Produced by Norman Douglas Bradley and Zach Horton; Written by Zach Horton, Alison Reed, Dave Marmor, and Michael Grafals.<\/p>\n

Synopsis:\u00a0In a future post-apocalyptic California, the new frontier is a vast nano-contaminated Zone cut off from the all-connected Grid and the ceaseless flows of bodies and information outside its borders. Only the insane or criminal would venture into this low-tech, body-corroding backwater: that\u2019s what Kaja has been told. But when her best and only friend Adelle disappears, apparently kidnapped and taken to the Zone by an anti-nanotech revolutionary group, Kaja is forced to enter this bizarre and alien world. There, where even fundamental matter and individual identity are up for grabs, as a virtual assassination team moves in for the kill, anti-technology cultists plot a takeover, and a mad cyberscientist prepares a vast mind-harvesting experiment, Adelle will begin to suspect that her entire brain is an elaborate organic computer program… But what, exactly, does it do?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

Trailer<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n