The Glacier by Jeff Wood

By Jeff Wood

"Call Jeff Wood's The Glacier what you will—a novel-in-screenplay-form; a prose poem at the issues of dying, suburbia, and the harsh symmetries of cosmic time; a surreal prophecy from America's anguished heartland—it will stay what it was once regularly aiming to be, and that is the most indelible and visionary video clips you have ever seen."

—Jon Raymond, writer of Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, and Meek's Cutoff


A spellbinding paintings within the spirit of Tarkovsky or Jodorowsky that reimagines the yank frontier on the flip of the millennium, a time while suburban improvement used to be metastasizing and the Social used to be approximately to implode. Following a caterer at a practice heart, a surveyor dwelling in a garage unit, and the hundreds lining up for an occasion at the horizon, The Glacier is a poetic rendering of the pre-apocalypse and a requiem for the passing of 1 global into another.


Jeff wooden is an actor and author from Ohio at the moment dwelling in Brooklyn and Berlin. he's a founding member of the experimental film/art workforce Rufus company and the Wallabout Oyster Theatre Brooklyn. His ten-year collaboration with Eve Sussman and Rufus company has led to the works 89 Seconds at Alcazar; The Rape of the Sabine Women; and diverse foreign screenings together with the Whitney Museum of yank artwork, MoMA NYC, MoMA SF, IFC middle new york, and Sundance New Frontier. he's a 2014 Fellow in Screenwriting from the hot York beginning for the Arts.


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