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There’s good news for Kentucker Audley‘s surreal DIY indie film, “Strawberry Mansion.” Alief has acquired international rights to the high-concept fantasy, which has its world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Music Box Films acquired the lo-fi indie for North America right after the festival, and now the distributor has released a new trailer (via Indiewire).

Future Islands have shared an emotional new single called ‘Deep In The Night’ – you can listen to it below.The song marks the first material from the Baltimore band since their standalone track ‘King Of Sweden’, which came out last year. Another song, ‘Peach’, was released in 2021 following on from their sixth and latest studio album, ‘As Long As You Are’ (2020).Today (August 15), Future Islands made their return with a moody, atmospheric ballad.

Attempting to simply describe “Strawberry Mansion” using a quick sentence does the film an injustice. Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney have crafted a film that is strange, funny, scary, and smart.

Guy Lodge Film CriticIt’s a popular conception that there’s nothing more boring than hearing about other people’s dreams, which by rights should make James Preble — the meek, cutely mustachioed hero of “Strawberry Mansion” — the unfortunate owner of the world’s dullest job: He’s a tax auditor who has to scan his clients’ recorded dreams for hidden expenses.

It’s rare for an independent film to be as gentle and childlike as Strawberry Mansion, the second feature collaboration from writing-directing team Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney. The filmmakers, who have made a number of movies separately, established their whimsical partnership with Sylvio, a similarly quirky comedy about a kind, misunderstood gorilla who loves puppets.