Lola Radio

Hollywood-style time travel stories like to focus on cultural trends and fashion: clothing, music, slang, everyday technology.The Irish science fiction film LOLA cleverly utilizes all these elements, but also explores darker, more global issues, such as: What if Germany won World War II?The Andrew Leger directed debut piece together the interrelated audio-visual files of the 1940s to form a fictional collage pieced together in dazzling 16mm film, telling the lives of two gifted and lively sisters Thomasina and Martha.The sisters lived alone as children and successfully created a machine to receive future media broadcasts.In their personal, isolated punk paradise, they embrace the rebellious style of the future era—Wonderful Band, David Bowie—but also find that history is a dangerous game when soldiers move in.The ultimate question is: Can movies miraculously restore the world if mass media can change the world?Like the collage monument created by its characters, LOLA is an inspiring whim, similar to Guy Martin, Woody Allen’s Chameleon (1983) and Peter Jackson’s Forgotten Silver (1996).It's a surreal journey through scratches, malfunctions and speculative possibilities.