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Title Mad, sad and audacious: Sci-Fi London 2014 Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet BFI Sight & Sound Magazine Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 27/04/16 Description Meanwhile, in the alternative reality of Darren Paul Fisher’s OXV: the Manual (aka Frequencies), the contrasting conditions of high-‘frequency’, super-lucky Marie and low-‘frequency’, luckless Zak (played by different actors at different ages) mean that they cannot be together for more than a minute per year or disaster will quickly ensue. Throughout school they have brief annual encounters as ‘experiments’, never fully appreciating one another’s motives or understanding that there is a third party playing with them like fish in a bowl.
Fisher’s intelligent and imaginative narrative revisits key scenes from different, ever wider perspectives – and will leave viewers mentally revisiting them for days afterwards as they try to disentangle what is at once a star-crossed romance, an allegory of (class) discord and (musical) harmony, and a theological investigation into nature and nurture, free will and determinism. It’s out there, alright – and there’s nothing else out there quite like it.Producer/Author Anton Bitel URL https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/festivals/mad-sad-audacious-sci-fi-london-2014 Persons Darren Fisher