ULTRAMEGALOPOLIS

ULTRAMEGALOPOLIS
Produced and Directed by Larry Wessel

A two and a half hour Hell-Ride through the vast continuously urban sprawl known as Los Angeles.
Explore the War-Zone from within it's riot-torn, graffiti-covered walls.
Listen in horror to the terrifying true stories of Charles Manson's cell mate.
Visit the McMartin Preschool, subject of the longest running criminal trial in the history of the United States.
Meet religious fanatics, movie stars, drug addicts, gang-bangers and bulimics.

See why Southern California is the Fruit and Nut Capitol of The World!

"Wessel's camera plays Vergil to your Dante on a journey through all the circles of this contemporary Tartarus."
-- Peter H. Gilmore,
THE CHURCH OF SATAN

"In many ways Ultramegalopolis may be read as Wessel's most personal work, as it charts his own wanderings through his home city.
Set in and around Los Angeles, Ultramegalopolis is nothing less than a psychogeographic tour with Wessel through the city. With no singular thematic constraints, other than presenting the schizophrenia that is contemporary LA, Wessel constructs a dizzying collection of images and portraits of the city's inhabitants; from a disabled break dancer through graffiti artists, a crazed sidewalk preacher to a boxer, the reminiscences and observations of an ex-con to a percussive street performance, amongst others. On its way the video also takes in the mass spectacle of a Desert Storm parade and a Black Power group speaking on the sidewalk.
Ultramegalopolis presents a ride through LA, and allows the audience to see a side of the city exorcised from most representations of the city. Wessel does not, however, let the film degenerate into pointless voyeuristic gawking or a cheap holiday in somebody else's misery, rather his largely unmediated long-takes of the varied personalities creates a space in which these individuals are best able to present themselves."
-Jack Sargeant, PANIK Magazine

"Exceedingly Eccentric Entertainment!"
-Soiled Sinema

Details:
2 Hours 35 Minutes Color DVD (Region 1)
Each DVD is signed and numbered by Larry Wessel