Post-screening Q&A with Chris Dudley, Whelm's composer and member of Tampa-based rock band Underoath.

Whelm takes audiences on a mind-bending odyssey through the sprawling landscape of the Great Depression. As a midwestern hotel is brutally robbed of the money its hiding for a notorious gang, WW1 veteran August, and his younger brother Reed, get tangled in a rivalry between a legendary bank robber and a mysterious enigma of a man named Alexander Aleksy. Their journey descends into the madness of the mind, as the estranged brothers are lured into a snare putting them at the center of a larger historic scheme, snowballing to an emotional climax that asks the audience to look inwards. Shot on 16mm film, its luscious cinematography eokves Norman Rockwell's paintings.