Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
Directed by Jon Foy
Written by Jon Foy & Colin Smith
2011
It’s quite reassuring that despite living in such a fast paced, busy and prioritized world that seems to have waved a thin curtain of disinterest over the smaller matters that there are still some people out there, often labeled subversive or other much less flattering terms, who show the will to stop and chase a dream, no matter how unusual or socially lamentable. Most of us traipse along busy city streets with heads down and music blaring from our headphones, engulfed in our own bubble of privacy and treating our surroundings with disregard. Some of us, the likes of unconventional Sherlock Holmes Justin Duerr, take the time to spot the bizarre messages left for us on said sidewalks and intersections.
When a series of bizarre tiles began appearing on the streets...
Directed by Jon Foy
Written by Jon Foy & Colin Smith
2011
It’s quite reassuring that despite living in such a fast paced, busy and prioritized world that seems to have waved a thin curtain of disinterest over the smaller matters that there are still some people out there, often labeled subversive or other much less flattering terms, who show the will to stop and chase a dream, no matter how unusual or socially lamentable. Most of us traipse along busy city streets with heads down and music blaring from our headphones, engulfed in our own bubble of privacy and treating our surroundings with disregard. Some of us, the likes of unconventional Sherlock Holmes Justin Duerr, take the time to spot the bizarre messages left for us on said sidewalks and intersections.
When a series of bizarre tiles began appearing on the streets...
- 5/6/2013
- by Scott Patterson
- SoundOnSight
In an attempt to dispel the myth that there is nothing to watch on Netflix’s Watch Instantly service, I scour the new releases and pore through the existing catalogue to find titles that are both off the beaten path and well worth viewing. On a bi-weekly basis I bring to you the treasure uncovered during the course of that hunt. From the new and noteworthy to the unsung sort-of-classics, there’s movie gold to be found in the wide open spaces and hidden crevices alike. Care to dig around Netflix’s crevices with me? Here are 15 movies you should be streaming this week. The New and Noteworthy Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011) In the 1980s, tiles began appearing embedded into the streets of major Northeast American cities bearing variations of a cryptic message that read, “Toynbee Idea/In Kubrick’S 2001/Resurrect Dead/On Planet Jupiter.” Over the years following their discovery, hundreds...
- 6/26/2012
- by Brian Kelley
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
DVD Playhouse—February 2012
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks,...
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks,...
- 2/26/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Toynbee Idea
In Kubrick’s 2001
Resurrect Dead
On Planet Jupiter
Maybe you’ve seen these words before. If they seem oddly familiar but you have no idea why, it could be because you’ve stumbled across them, literally, once or twice before. Embedded in city streets and highways across the Us, tiles containing these words have confounded mystery enthusiasts for decades. These are affectionately known as Toynbee tiles. The documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles covers the efforts of Justin Duerr who has spent quite a bit of his time discovering their origin and the concepts behind these seemingly unrelated and bizarre words. If you’ve never heard of these tiles and if you’re positive you’ve never stumbled across one, by the end you’ll know all you need to. Perhaps even more than you want to if you crave unsolved mysteries, becauseResurrect Dead offers a pretty convincing verdict.
In Kubrick’s 2001
Resurrect Dead
On Planet Jupiter
Maybe you’ve seen these words before. If they seem oddly familiar but you have no idea why, it could be because you’ve stumbled across them, literally, once or twice before. Embedded in city streets and highways across the Us, tiles containing these words have confounded mystery enthusiasts for decades. These are affectionately known as Toynbee tiles. The documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles covers the efforts of Justin Duerr who has spent quite a bit of his time discovering their origin and the concepts behind these seemingly unrelated and bizarre words. If you’ve never heard of these tiles and if you’re positive you’ve never stumbled across one, by the end you’ll know all you need to. Perhaps even more than you want to if you crave unsolved mysteries, becauseResurrect Dead offers a pretty convincing verdict.
- 2/8/2012
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
This interview with Jon Foy, director of Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, was originally published during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, where the film won the Documentary Directors Award. The film opens today at the IFC Center in New York, with Foy and his collaborators doing Q & A’s at the evening shows.
There are few professions in the world that demand more from their practitioners than documentary filmmaking — most filmmakers spend years (if not lives) toiling away in obscurity, with little keeping them going beside the faith that theirs is a story worth sacrificing everything for.
Sundance newbie, Jon Foy, is certainly a man of faith — his feature debut, Resurrect Dead, was entirely self-funded by a series of odd jobs. When he got the call that the film he’d been working on for five years was going to be at Sundance, he was working as a house cleaner.
There are few professions in the world that demand more from their practitioners than documentary filmmaking — most filmmakers spend years (if not lives) toiling away in obscurity, with little keeping them going beside the faith that theirs is a story worth sacrificing everything for.
Sundance newbie, Jon Foy, is certainly a man of faith — his feature debut, Resurrect Dead, was entirely self-funded by a series of odd jobs. When he got the call that the film he’d been working on for five years was going to be at Sundance, he was working as a house cleaner.
- 9/2/2011
- by Mary Anderson Casavant
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A South Philadelphia neighborhood, the British historian/philosopher Arnold J. Toynbee, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and a one-act play by David Mamet all turn up as important elements in the investigation conducted during Resurrect Dead: The Mystery Of The Toynbee Tiles. It can, at times, feel like a Diy version of The Da Vinci Code. Instead of an oddly coiffed Tom Hanks, Jon Foy’s documentary has for its hero Justin Duerr, a Philly-based artist and grown-up punk who becomes entranced by a series of mysterious tiles that for years have turned up embedded in the pavement of his home ...
- 9/1/2011
- avclub.com
Jon Foy's acclaimed and perplexing documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery Of The Toynbee Tiles will kick off it's theatrical run September 2nd at the IFC Center in New York and Twitch wants you to be there.Strangeness is afoot. Most people don't notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and...
- 8/29/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Jon Foy's acclaimed documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery Of The Toynbee Tiles begins its limited theatrical run September 2nd - find a list of upcoming screenings here - and Twitch has been given an exclusive clip to share.Strangeness is afoot. Most people don't notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he...
- 8/16/2011
- Screen Anarchy
One of the strangest and most intriguing documentaries to premiere at Sundance this year, Jon Foy's "Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles," dropped its trailer today and it looks mighty promising. In the film, Foy follows Justin Duerr, a guy obsessed with uncovering the story behind hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past thirty years. If ...
- 8/3/2011
- Indiewire
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles Click here to read the review! "The cryptic and bizarre message has mostly been disregarded by the average passerby, but to Justin Duerr and his two main research partners, Colin Smith and Steve Weinik, the search for the truth behind these tiles has been an obsession since first stumbling upon the tiles. Their quest to find the covert tiler, and the meaning of his crazed message, unfolds like a punk rock private eye tale that only becomes more extraordinary as each rare bit of evidence leads to the next."...
- 6/22/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
Directed by Jon Foy
2011, USA, 88 mins.
“Toynbee idea / in Kubrick’s 2001 / resurrect dead / on planet Jupiter” – this message, appearing in colourful tiles sunk into asphalt, has appeared in cities across the Us and in several in South American. Toynbee tiles have a great deal of mystery behind them – how are they made, what do they mean, and who makes them? Resurrect Dead sets out to answer some of those questions, and in doing so proves that something so inconsequential can be immersive, fascinating, and wonderful.
Call CSI?
Resurrect Dead primarily follows Justin Duerr, a Philadelphia-based artist obsessed with Toynbee Tiles, and friends Colin Smith and Steve Weinik. Though Toynbee tiles have received a great deal of attention from the conspiracy theory and paranormal crowds, these three don’t buy into the tinfoil hat brigade. Their interest is in the artist – or ‘tiler...
Directed by Jon Foy
2011, USA, 88 mins.
“Toynbee idea / in Kubrick’s 2001 / resurrect dead / on planet Jupiter” – this message, appearing in colourful tiles sunk into asphalt, has appeared in cities across the Us and in several in South American. Toynbee tiles have a great deal of mystery behind them – how are they made, what do they mean, and who makes them? Resurrect Dead sets out to answer some of those questions, and in doing so proves that something so inconsequential can be immersive, fascinating, and wonderful.
Call CSI?
Resurrect Dead primarily follows Justin Duerr, a Philadelphia-based artist obsessed with Toynbee Tiles, and friends Colin Smith and Steve Weinik. Though Toynbee tiles have received a great deal of attention from the conspiracy theory and paranormal crowds, these three don’t buy into the tinfoil hat brigade. Their interest is in the artist – or ‘tiler...
- 5/6/2011
- by DaveRobson
- SoundOnSight
Here is why the current trend in documentary filmmaking, the re-purposing of a 'standard talking heads doc' with a more structured genre-framework (eg. Man on Wire, The Cove, King of Kong), has yet to find its quality ceiling or go stale. Who would have thought a quirky street art mystery (following on the heels of the wildly successful Exit Through The Gift Shop) would ultimately be about respect, community, passion and human dignity? Prepare to have your mind expanded.What do Stanley Kubrick, Street Art, a renown meta-history professor, short-wave radio, David Mamet, the construction of a mammoth telescope in Chile, bringing the dead back to life and pigeon husbandry have in common? In Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, Jon Foy and Justin Duerr tackle...
- 4/28/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Toynbee Idea
In Kubrick’s 2001
Resurrect Dead
On Planet Jupiter
Maybe you’ve seen these words before. If they seem oddly familiar but you have no idea why, it could be because you’ve stumbled across them, literally, once or twice before. Embedded in city streets and highways across the Us, tiles containing these words have confounded mystery enthusiasts for decades. These are affectionately known as Toynbee tiles. The documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles covers the efforts of Justin Duerr who has spent quite a bit of his time discovering their origin and the concepts behind these seemingly unrelated and bizarre words. If you’ve never heard of these tiles and if you’re positive you’ve never stumbled across one, by the end you’ll know all you need to. Perhaps even more than you want to if you crave unsolved mysteries, because Resurrect Dead offers a pretty convincing verdict.
In Kubrick’s 2001
Resurrect Dead
On Planet Jupiter
Maybe you’ve seen these words before. If they seem oddly familiar but you have no idea why, it could be because you’ve stumbled across them, literally, once or twice before. Embedded in city streets and highways across the Us, tiles containing these words have confounded mystery enthusiasts for decades. These are affectionately known as Toynbee tiles. The documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles covers the efforts of Justin Duerr who has spent quite a bit of his time discovering their origin and the concepts behind these seemingly unrelated and bizarre words. If you’ve never heard of these tiles and if you’re positive you’ve never stumbled across one, by the end you’ll know all you need to. Perhaps even more than you want to if you crave unsolved mysteries, because Resurrect Dead offers a pretty convincing verdict.
- 4/3/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
The cool-looking documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles premieres next week at Sundance 2011, and today we have the new poster for you to check out, courtesy of Imp Awards.
The docu-film is directed by first-time filmmaker Jon Foy with artist/musician Justin Duerr leading the investigation, which they have been filming since 2005.
Synopsis:
Strangeness is afoot. Most people don't notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and one...
The docu-film is directed by first-time filmmaker Jon Foy with artist/musician Justin Duerr leading the investigation, which they have been filming since 2005.
Synopsis:
Strangeness is afoot. Most people don't notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and one...
- 1/17/2011
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
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