“Everything is fake. Nothing is real,” says New York No Wave musician Von LMO at the start of director Lori Felker’s Future Language, which screens at Northwest Film Forum tonight and tomorrow night. This ethos sets the tone for the documentary, an un-slick cinematic fan letter by a woman who capped her 18-year obsession with her subject by completing this scrappy movie.
With his black, sigil-covered shirt and an enigmatic amulet around his neck lending his quasi-crackpot philosophies a kitschy corona, Von LMO (a self-described “alien hybrid” now in his late 60s and in poor health after a lifetime of hard living, prison time, and being reincarnated) comes across like a wise-guy, Caucasian Sun Ra—but with drug and alcohol problems.
