OUT ON DVD IN THE UK 29TH JAN 2007!
Described by Terry Gilliam as Alice in Wonderland meets Psycho, TIDELAND is a
story that explores the resilience of a child and how she survives in bizarre
circumstances.
Jeliza-Rose is a young child in a very unusual situation - both parents are junkies.
When her mother dies, she embarks on a strange journey with her father, Noah, a
rockn roll musician well past his time.
The film drifts between reality and fantasy as Jeliza-Rose escapes the vast loneliness
of her new home into the fantasy world that exists in her imagination. In this world
fireflies have names, bog-men awaken at dusk, and squirrels talk. The heads of four
dolls, long since separated from their bodies, keep her company: Mustique, Baby
Blonde, Glitter Gal and Sateen Lips, until she meets Dickens, a mentally damaged
young man with the mind of a ten-year-old. Dressed in a wet suit and speedo, he
spends his days hiding out in junk heaped wig-wam turned submarine, waiting to
catch the monster shark that inhabits the railway tracks. Then theres his older
sister Dell, a tall ghost-like figure dressed in black who hides behind a beekeepers
mesh hood.
As optimistic as it is surreal, as humorous as it is suspenseful Tideland is a
celebration of the power of a childs imagination.
