Parallax Cinema co-presents the West Coast Premiere of Heather Landsman’s The Best of Me.

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“Oddly enough, people get interested in a person like that. That would be the only reason why anyone would sit through dozens and dozens of hours of unedited home diaries.” – Ricardo López

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In 1993, living in suburban Atlanta and working as an exterminator, young and alienated Ricardo López developed an all-consuming love for Icelandic experimental pop musician Björk. Over the next three years, López’s fixation would result in hundreds of diary entries, dozens of hours of home video footage, an assassination plot, and his eventual death by his own hand. Director Heather Landsman has crafted an eye-opening portrait of obsession taken to the edge.

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The film will be preceded by a Björk pre-show beginning when doors open, and then a short film by Ryan Betschart, who will join Heather in conversation for a post-screening Q&A.

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dir. Heather Landsman, 2024, United States, digital projection

89min

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The Flaw in the Crystal, dir. Ryan Betschart, 2021, United States, digital projection

3min

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92min + Q&A

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7:30 DOORS

8:00 SCREENING

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Parallax Cinema is a new screening series focused on experimental film/video, genre film, and cinematic encounters with other arts and literature.