Rembrandt Laughing

This film is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends circa 1988 before the dotcoming of the city a slow marijuana hazed story which drifts like the fabled fog encompassing the quirks and habits of a generation that made the city theirs if only for a while Very obliquely Rembrandt Laughing sketches the time and place encompassing the AIDS epidemic the casual sexual revolution the debris of 68 lingering in the air A quiet very San Francisco comedy of life among a small group of friends Rembrandt Laughing was improvised over the period of about a month by Jost and his friends mostly acting nonprofessionals