A man and a woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

Filmmaker Shane Carruth’s work has been called dense, enigmatic, dream-like, and obscure. His debut, PRIMER, fascinated its way into a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and was considered a cult classic within just a few years of its release. He returns with UPSTREAM COLOR, a tale that Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times describes as “part science fiction scare movie, part offbeat romance, part completely unclassifiable.”

“It might be fair to argue that the resonances of Upstream Color are too obscure and internal — many viewers have and will be baffled by it — but it’s the type of art that inspires curiosity and obsession, like some beautiful object whose meaning remains tantalizingly out of reach.” –A.O. Scott, The New York Times