Last Lost (1996)

A film gleaned via the optical printer from a home market movie made in the late 1930s about a chimpanzees high adventures in an amusement park at Coney Island Central weight is given to the chimps inscrutable gaze indicating psychoemotional territories informed by peculiar details that haunt the original The resulting film is a slighlty hypnotic and openended parable about coming of age in a shifty world of slipping terms LAST LOST is a silent film in spirit trying to speak without words like some dreams The primate of Hellers confabulation brings both peace and a sword The reviving spirits that he releases are not easily compatible with the order of things and such newfound awareness doesnt necessarily provide the keys to the kingdom but rather a profound uneasiness with the staple amusements and short circuitry of this provisional world