Split (1989 film) (nonfiction)

VHS case art for Split.

Split is a 1989 film directed by Chris Shaw and starring Timothy Dwight and Joan Bechtel.

Starker (Dwight) attempts to counter the oppressive message of a big brother media and is forced to go into hiding.

The film was notable for its early use of CGI.

It was the final film appearance of Gene Evans.

Reviews

Jon Abrams

Jon Abrams of Daily Grindhouse writes:

A slovenly man with obviously fake teeth, dressed like a vagrant, wanders around a bus station. He then looks directly into the camera and begins ranting about how they can see him. The film then cuts to two men watching him on a computer screen, arguing as to what to do about him. He doesn’t match any profile in their files, identified on screen as a wall of computerized faces without hair or teeth. “Clean him, tag him, start a file,” one absent-mindedly says to the other.

So begins SPLIT, one of the most criminally underseen films of 1989. The sole film to date of mathematician Chris Shaw, SPLIT is a low-fi sci-fi film of the most ambitious variety, a bizarre ride of dystopian paranoia, religious allegory, and tongue-in-cheek humor that basically defies description from the computer-generated opening credits (from Shaw’s brother Robert) to the inconclusive ending.

• [http://dailygrindhouse.com/thewire/25th-anniversary-project-split-1989/

THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY PROJECT – SPLIT (1989)] by Jon Abrams @ Daily Grindhouse (Feb 27, 2014)

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against light
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Film (nonfiction)

External links:

• Split (1989 film) @ Wikipedia