Preston Miller’s l’Odge d’Oor sneaks NYC premiere in Brooklyn ahead of run at Village East by Angelika next month

Indie filmmaking auteur Preston Miller is making a return to the New York City cinema space for his first time since the critically acclaimed God’s Land (2010) twelve years ago with his latest feature film, l’Odge d’Oor, a very personal surrealist and comically absurd meditation on the question of life’s and faith’s meaning. A necklace of vignettes commenting on religion, society, humanity and sex, stretching from the Garden of Eden to the present, l’Odge d’Oor invites a comically mindbending banquet of searching for the meaning of our existence through the subconscious. A ‘traditionally Surrealistic,’ modern juxtaposition of the absurd, the insignificant, the existential and the profound, an un-official sequel to Luis Buñuel’s The Phantom of Liberty.

Think about that for just a moment.

Last night, the film had a sneak preview at Phil Hartman’s The Brick in Brooklyn, which could not have been a more perfect venue to give an audience both a first look at the film, but also an evening to meet Miller, his longtime friend and collaborator (and former noted Village Voice writer) Mark Jacobson and gain some insight into real New York City-based independent filmmaking from those two as well as Hartman. After an intro from the trio, Jacobson and Miller’s short (which will be stitched into a larger project envisioned by Jacobson), titled The Suitcase also got a first look followed by l’Odge d’Oor, and a second conversation between Miller and Hartman focusing on that film.

The audience included another true NYC indie filmmaker, Henry Bean (The Believer, Noise) and the true definition of surrealism was discussed, Dadaists, the connection between l’Odge d’Oor and the work of Buñuel, as well as free pizza for he audience members, all made for an evening of cinema that easily would fall under an enthusiastic description of “only in New York.”

Village East by Angelika better brace itself for this one.