Frozen in Time: Indie Film “Movement + Location” Recasts Brooklyn Through Sci-Fi

New York City exists in perpetuity on screen. People change, but film and television backdrops – a coffee shop, public park, cramped apartment – those places are more or less rooted in time. The new film Movement + Location from Bed-Stuy husband-and-wife team Alexis and Bodine Boling turns that peculiarly New York sense of stasis on its head with a bemusing premise.

In a city where most people tend to come from somewhere else, what if that place was fixed firmly in the future – say 300 years – as opposed to say Tampa (a place referenced humorously in the film’s plot). Set in the dead of winter, the film follows Kim Getty, an “immigrant” from the future with a Brooklyn existence not much different from present-day folk: working for a homelessness prevention non-profit and sharing an apartment with a clueless roommate (wryly played by Anna Margaret Hollyman).