'Strawberry Mansion' Trailer: Kentucker Audley Is A Dream Auditor Swept Up In A Cosmic Journey

There’s good news for Kentucker Audley‘s surreal DIY indie film, “Strawberry Mansion.” Alief has acquired international rights to the high-concept fantasy, which has its world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Music Box Films acquired the lo-fi indie for North America right after the festival, and now the distributor has released a new trailer (via Indiewire).

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“Strawberry Mansion” is written and directed by indie filmmakers Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney. The eccentric film stars Audley, Reed Birney, Penny Fuller, Grace Glowicki, and Linas Phillips. And it’s an odd one, but delightfully bizarre, nonetheless, and essentially about dream auditors. Yep, the government is trying to tax your liminal spaces.

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Our review from Sundance said the movie “blurred dystopian dreams Of monetization, consumption, and love into A quirky lo-fi, surreal swirl.” Our Editor-in-chief praised its purposefully degraded look and tone. The “candy-color-coated film, ‘Strawberry Mansion,’ is ridiculous and whimsical, with the cruddy analog, lo-fi aesthetics of a cult weirdo classic in the making.”

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Here’s the official synopsis:

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In a world where the government records and taxes dreams, an unassuming dream auditor gets swept up in a cosmic journey through the life and dreams of an older eccentric.

There’s no release date on “Strawberry Mansion” just yet, but the Music Box trailer says coming soon, and presumably, that’s later this summer.