Robinson Devor

A film noir parody about a used car salesman obsessed with writing and directing his dream project: a maudlin tale called "The Man Who Got Away" about a trucker who runs over a little girl.

Police Beat is both a strikingly poetic examination of displacement and a gently surreal compendium of criminal behavior. Z, a young Senegalese and Muslim man, experiences his adopted city of Seattle through his job as a bicycle cop, leading him to encounters with all manner of strange and troubled people. Z himself, however, is less concerned with his job than with the possibility that his American girlfriend may be cheating on him while on a camping trip with a male friend. (Director's Statement)

A glimpse into the life of a seemingly normal Seattle man whose secret sexual appetites led to his shocking death.

Time swims: modern country-clubbers celebrate an annual Pow Wow party while a 1908 mounted posse chases Willie Boy across the desert. (imdb)