“I just had a visitor here, a guy from Ecuador, and we had a show in my basement. I showed him a couple of films, and he was posing questions to get me talking like I am with you. He brought a woman with him, his girlfriend, and she asked me, so beautifully, “Have you ever had an out of the body experience?” And so that’s her way of saying that that’s what she had watching my films, and that’s…

NOTEBOOK: Considering the large volume of digital work you’ve produced in the last few years, can you speak to what keeps you so actively engaged in your creative process these days?

GEHR: I really do not have adequate words to describe things. I’m not very good with language. If I deal with a visual image, it’s a whole other thing for me. But let's say that I think my way of working is more of a hobby. It’s something that…

Most overlit studio slop of the year? This one has a serious PS3-era sheen to it—I’d even go so far as to describe its textures as “shiny.” Anyway, there’s nothing here that PWSA hasn’t done better before, and the whole thing is compressed to hell on top of that. The fact that it’s adapted from a dumbass GRRM short story is easily its worst offense—everyone somehow knows about everyone else’s double-crossings, there’s a villainous Lady Macbeth-type monarch, and the whole…