S.O.S is an energized, activist science-fantasy collage-allegory on autonomous resistance to the globalization of the communications industry-a film that mocks America's military-industrial miracle, that critiques high-tech robber barons, and that opts for the agency of human curiosity and invention. In this found-footage fairy tale set in the year 2007 in a blighted desert outpost outside of Las Vegas, a young telepathic woman, BooBoo, scavenges for survival on an old bombing range, while her father, Yogi, is holed up in a cinderblock house pirate-broadcasting rambling diatribes on the impending electromagnetic "Pulse." His revolutionary fervor enables him to link up with other communications outlaws, (while the daughter takes a) voyage back in time to retrieve a secret message left on the airwaves by her scientist grandmother....In an increasingly elliptical montage of live-action, archival film, "broadcast" video, and speculative interviews, our "chrononautical" quest warps into a playfully critical reading of the fascinating artifacts of modern media-archeology.-Craig Baldwin