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By Chantilly Champignon

We are huge fans of Brad Abraham's documentaries, one of his most 
acclaimed, the 2018 'Love and Saucers' about painter David Huggins who 
paints scenes of his interspecies love affair with an extraterrestrial 
woman is a charming captivating portrait of an eccentric outsider artist.

Now Brad made his first short fiction movie and everyone should watch that 
one too...it is called CONSPIRACY CRUISE.

Back in the 1990s in the pioneering days of the internet the "conspiracy 
scene" was all cute, fueled by TV series like the X-FILES every computer 
nerd bathed in the romantic spielerei of the mysterious unknown. A world 
of intrigue and adventure lay ahead on the computerscreen soundtracked 
by the ghastly noises of modem bleeps and IDM. We all wanted to be the 
superdorks of the Lone Gunmen hacking UFO documents from some government 
database from our cyberpunk bedroom.

Enter 2020, conspiracy enthousiasm is associated with a bunch of very 
scary people. Annoying at best but overall extremely dangerous. A 
festering petri dish providing a gene pool for Trump supporters and anti 
vaxxers mixed with  racial hatred, drinking bleech and the corruption of 
wisdom we have so painstakingly gained in our history. They are ready to 
throw humankind back to some dark age were science and objective 
thinking has no place. Conspiracy enthousiasm is all cool and cute when 
its low key and well into the boundaries of common sense...but when it 
influences the well being of us all its a whole different story.

Let's mix this with another puzzling aspect of our current civilization:

CRUISE SHIPS.
 
Giant floating shopping malls where larval consumers are fed unlimited 
all you can eat sludge while they gamble, get drunk, sloth around, 
spread diseases and pollute our environment. Cruises are an insult to 
life itself and let's all admit that we watched the early 2020 Corona 
cruise stories unfold with a sense of sinister 'schadenfreude'.

Combine these two things together and we have a narrative winner for
a short fim. Enter Brad Abraham's CONSPIRACY CRUISE. Go watch it here for 
free: here https://vimeo.com/413682378... it is a lot of fun!!!

Let's hope Brad makes more movies, docs, fiction whatever its always a 
winner!!

Chantilly C.