An intellectual leaves the Cuban revolution and 'underdevelopment' behind only to find himself at odds with the ambiguities of his new life in the 'developed' world. A portrait of alienation, of an outsider with no clear-cut politics or ideology. A stranger in a strange land struggling with old age, sexual desire and ultimately the impossibility for the individual to belong in any society. The film's narrative is a collage of flashbacks, daydreams, and hallucinations comprising live-action, animation, and newsreel footage assembled to suggest the way personal memory works, subjectively and emotionally.
A chance meeting in a parking lot in 1979 between filmmaker Trent Harris and a young man from Beaver, Utah inspired the creation of an underground film that is now known as Beaver Trilogy. But the film itself is only part of the story.
Two sisters are thrown out of their isolation and onto opposite coasts of America by a terrifying cosmic entity. On their quest to reunite they discover their own supernatural abilities and meet many strange characters.
Aki Ra joined Pol Pot's murderous Khmer Rouge army at the age of nine. Twenty years later he roams the minefields of Cambodia in search of redemption. Armed only with a stick and a pocketknife Aki seeks out and destroys some of the six million landmines that infect his home. Shot in minefields, this film contains footage that reveals just how dangerous Aki Ra's obsession is.
Is Joe really a nut licker? Trent Harris, one of America's strangest filmmakers, asks this and other perplexing questions in, The Wild Goose Chronicles. Banished from Hollywood for the unforgivable sin of making a flop, Harris sets out for Timbuktu and places even more remote. Powered by lost loves, dead pets, and magic mushrooms he wanders the world, discovers the "Giant Eye of Merv" in Turkmenistan, naked beauties on the beach in Brazil, and crafty antelope on a bombing range in Utah. It's TRUE, it's WEIRD, and it's on DVD.