Synopsis / About
Low Life
Logline:
In the near future, students walk through the donated memories of people who lived through historic moments, but when one grad student visits the poetic chaos of the 1980s Lower East Side, she begins to suspect that her host’s memories were neither freely given, nor painlessly shared.
Home to hustlers, families, punks, squatters and artists, life in Manhattan’s Lower East Side was as culturally rich as it was life or death. But thanks to modern technology found in every school across the country, graduate student Alice Gutierrez can safely experience the era, walking through a simulation built on the donated memories of those who lived it.
But when a glitch reveals that the technology is not so benevolent and the memories are not so “donated,” Alice must jump from memory to memory, person to person and experience the unvarnished reality of the period — the freezing nights, the police showdowns, the burning buildings and the riots — to uncover a conspiracy to colonize the human mind.
But when a glitch reveals that the technology is not so benevolent and the memories are not so “donated,” Alice must jump from memory to memory, person to person and experience the unvarnished reality of the period — the freezing nights, the police showdowns, the burning buildings and the riots — to uncover a conspiracy to colonize the human mind.
Say Hello /Contact
Aldo Arias and Kristen Curtis are a screenwriting/producer duo who also happen to be award-winning advertising creative directors. They enjoy sushi, arguing and looking forward to the upcoming class war.
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