Uncle Kent 2

January 13, 2016 · Scruffy City Hall · 8:00 p.m.

In a desperate search to create a follow-up to Joe Swanberg’s 2011 film Uncle Kent, Kent Osborne travels to a comic book convention in San Diego where he loses his mind and confronts the end of the world. Reuniting in the Gremlins 2 of “Indie” sequels, Joe Swanberg, Jennifer Prediger and Tipper Newton return in a surrealist look into Osborne’s madness. Written by Osborne and passing the directors’ torch over to Todd Rohal, Uncle Kent 2 plays out like an absurdist successor that bends the rules of sequels and the minds of the audience.

“Uncle Kent 2 is the craziest movie sequel ever. A defiantly unconventional crowdpleaser.” — Eric Kohn, Indiewire

“The fact that making a sequel to one of Joe Swanberg’s more obscure films is one of the least bizarre things about Uncle Kent 2 should tell you something.” — Stephen Saito, The Movable Fest

About the Filmmaker

Todd Rohal directed The Guatemalan Handshake in 2006, The Catechism Cataclysm in 2011, and Nature Calls in 2012. His short film Rat Pack Rat won Sundance’s Special Jury Prize For Unique Vision in 2014.