- Wednesday, December 21, 7:30pm
Beginning in the early 1980s, hundreds of tiles carrying this cryptic message (Toynbee Idea in Movie 2001. Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter) were found embedded in the asphalt of city streets as far apart as New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Santiago, and Buenos Aires. Street art? A prank? A message from space? The film recounts how young artist Justin Duerr became fascinated with the strange plaques and, with two other “Toynbee tile” enthusiasts, Steve Weinik and Colin Smith, spent years trying to discover what they meant and who made them. The unlikely investigators uncovered increasingly bizarre clues: a newspaper article, a David Mamet play, a Jupiter colonization organization, and a Toynbee message that “hijacked” local news broadcasts. But as Duerr starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and one that hits disturbingly close to home. Director: John Foy 2011 USA 85min. NR digital
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