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Posted: 5/1/2012
Bird Dog -- An electrical fire at a top secret government kennel unleashes flying killer dogs onto a somnambulant desert community in this existential comic thriller directed by Tom Bolema. Special Agent Roberto Von Cagle is assigned to round up the killer dogs, cover their tracks, and apprehend his long-lost father, mad scientist Luther Von Cagle. Terror haunts the hearts of hapless locals while the threat of discovery reaches the highest echelons of power, setting the stage for a sensational father/son showdown. Corrupt leaders and grand illusions show what horrors wreak the dogs of war. Bird Dog amuses, confounds, provokes, portends and mortifies with subversive humor, ample ambiguity, eye-popping epiphanies, and eerie Mojave Desert locales. At once fanciful, self-mocking, ornate and saturated by the beauty of the Mojave Desert, 'the cosmos out of balance' may be a story as old as the stars, but Bird Dog does it with a schizy, demonically flip subject at the center of it all. Bird Dog, the neo-Dutch, though un-shakebly Freesian magnum opus from the avant-garde emigrant of middle Europe's baroque culture, by way of central Europe's high culture, that is mysteriously pasted together in some sort of bricolage of contemporary life, resurrected by some parallel mysterious dimensional penetration into the freaky and mysterious hills, rocks, Joshua trees, and that inestimable dread that comes with it - in effect glorifying that obscure piece of land that only those in the know are intimate enough with to see the debauched portal into the labyrinthine 'Bolema' unconsciousness.... a totemic papier mache pastiche of the 'carnivalesque.'