SECOND LOOK
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HYPERREAL FILM CLUB series
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the MUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT
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KEDI
Directed by Ceyda Torun
2016

7pm – doors // live DJ set - Mouthfeel
8pm – "Metallurgy Lethargy" with director Ryan Tarr
815pm – KEDI

Suggested $5 donation at the door
Screenings every other Thursday (mostly) all winter long
PART ~THE LAST~ of ~A FEW~

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Duman the gourmand taps at the restaurant window whenever he requires roast beef or – when dieting – smoked cuts and turkey. Psikopat keeps her “husband” close and her dinner even closer. Gamsiz gambols between benefactors, including a kindly baker, in the hippest part of town.

“Dogs think people are God, but cats don’t,” explains one of the film’s human participants. “Cats know that people act as middlemen to God’s will. They’re not ungrateful. They just know better.”

The humans are not named in Ceyda Torun’s film, but they do talk us through the long and fascinating history of cats in the fishing port and the great benefits that come from moggy companionship. “They absorb all your negative energy,” says one shopkeeper. Another interviewee recalls that when his fishing boat was damaged by a storm, a miraculous cat led him towards a lost wallet containing just enough money to cover the necessary repairs.

Working with cinematographers Charlie Wuppermann and Alp Korfali, director Torun alternates between an ingenious, cat’s-eye view tracking and magnificent aerial shots of the city, all set to a terrific score by Kira Fontana. A purrfect antidote to blockbuster fatigue. 

-The Irish Times

take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKq7UqplcL8

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About the short:

shot on super 8; an experimental exploration of ritual and dysphoria under dystopia

rt is a non binary artist from michigan, living in austin. cap sun/leo moon/leo rising. they spend a lot of time indoors, worried; adorned in chains; struggling to differentiate between routine and stagnancy; uncertain of their own flesh.

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hyperreal film club is a time and a place for new friends, old friends, freaks, geeks, enemies, lovers, and ghosts to come watch some neat flicks.

SECOND LOOK, a bi-weekly series running from December – March, brings back to the big screen seven films by women, all released in the past five years, all featuring diverse perspectives on both sides of the camera. With this series, we want to progress as an advocate for the current work of adventurous, diverse filmmakers and as a community film hub for Austin.