Ray Pride

Working on a miniscule budget on video, and working with some of the same concerns as Lukas Moodysson's upcoming porn-and violence provocation, "A Hole in the Heart," Tim MCann's "Nowhere Man" is a small, strange trip. (There's an overt nod to the black-hole-at-the-end-of-the-road classic, "Detour," by Edgar G. Ulmer, which "Nowhere Man" also resembles.) It could also be called "A Very Short Engagement" in its scarifying complications: on the eve of his wedding, a man finds a pornographic video starring his fiancée; after a week of argument, she cuts off his penis and holds it for ransom for the unlikely sum of $560. (Tromafilm majordomo Lloyd Kaufman plays the doctor who explains the meager chances for rectifying "the injury.") McCann, whose earlier low-budget work includes "Desolation Angels" and "Revolution # 9" works effectively at this small scale. He edited, photographed, wrote and co-produced as well as directed this unnerving slice of emascula-sploitation. 75m. BetaSP video.

"Nowhere Man" opens Friday at Facets.

(2005-03-08)

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