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Welcome to Williamsburgistan, 2021

'The Exit Room' imagines the inevitable 2021 hypstopia.

It's seven years from now, and Williamsburg has fallen into the clutches of an authoritarian police state. In this hypstopia, even well-groomed, good-looking journalists are rounded up for execution in grim, state-run 'exit rooms.' The movie of the same name, which stars Girls' Christopher Abbot, was an official selection for last years' Tribeca Film Festival. It just made its Vimeo debut, and was selected as a 'Short of the Week'.

The insurgent hipster motif is no doubt intended to convey a foreboding what-if-it-happened-hereness, the execution tools recall the ominous cattle gun in No Country for Old Men, and the script is a futurized adaptation of Ambrose Bierce's 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'. Its Kickstarter page, which raised $12,500 for the project, draws myriad links to the Occupy movement and government surveillance. Mostly though, it's a well-produced little action film; Digg calls it "visceral and terrifying."

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