Illusion Travels by Boxcar
Her voice is soft and plaintive, her words a slurry of apologies. Illusion Travels by Boxcar shows what happens when a woman who has been a homeless alcoholic for many years returns to the children she had abandoned. Unable to hide from her past, she is forced to contemplate the wounded life and its wake of wreckage. Illusion explores uncharted territories in the margins around us every day, in every city, in a direct cinema documentary where the filmmaker himself is caught in the vortex of other people’s nightmares.
Update 6/17/2009: The original working title of the film, Saving Patty, has been changed to Illusion Travels by Boxcar, a reworking of the title of an old Mexican Bunuel film.
Slowly getting into re-editing after the preview screenings. It will be changed to make the first half of the film work better. Your comments—both verbal and written—are playing a role in making the best cut possible. Thanks to all those who filled out questionnaires at the two preview screenings in L.A. and Marin county—I appreciate the time you took to watch the film, think about it, and write.
—John Dentino
The Illusion Travels by Boxcar Trailers
Patty's Family Waits
The Story
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The "Underground" Trailer
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