BORDERS|NO BORDERS is the short film competition hosted by Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2024.
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As part of our coverage of Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2024, Hyperreal Film Journal viewed a work-in-progress screening of Connor Sen Warnick’s feature debut, Characters Disappearing.
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We are joined today by the director of Tendaberry, a year-spanning, character-driven epic that chronicles the life of a young woman navigating living in New York after her boyfriend returns to Ukraine to be with his ailing father.
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig entwines the real threats of a brutal theocracy with the fictional story of one family’s struggle under its absolutist rule.
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We sat down with Norita producers Sarah Schoellkopf and Melissa Daniels to discuss their connection to Nora Cortiñas and the feminist message at the heart of the film.
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From the outset, Get Away perpetually winks at the audience. The comedy comes from a family’s obliviousness to numerous foreboding signifiers of doom, though Frost’s script goes back to that well so much it starts to run dry by the second act.
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Elizabeth Sankey weaves an intricate tale of female persecution and its relation to postpartum depression, soaked with the tears of her own harrowing experience in a psychiatric hospital after her own breakdown. The documentary works as an expose of her institutionalization intercut with iconic witches throughout film and television history and the confessions of other suffering mothers.
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Despite its titular (and occasionally apt) shallowness, Tolga Karaçelik’s entry at Tribeca is a great ride that manages to find moments of poignancy.
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Eight days, 267.12 miles walked, 10 interviews conducted, 29 articles written, dozens of films watched, and an untold amount of fast food consumed. The Hyperreal Film Journal stayed busy during SXSW 2024.
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Told exclusively through iPhone footage, laptop cameras, and text exchanges, Patricia Franquesa’s My Sextortion Diary plays out more like a thriller more akin to films like Missing, Searching, and UnFriended than the traditional talking head documentary.
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The first feature-length film from Rocket Jump (Freddie Wong and Matthew Arnold), We’re All Gonna Die has some rough edges but is at its greatest when it finds the balance between emotional and comedic.
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Sing Sing is a magician’s best trick from a filmmaker still early in his career.
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Nicole Daddano and Adam Wilder’s short animated film The Bleacher makes the viewer a voyeur in a dark and gritty world, centered around a laundromat where a regular has some very dirty laundry to do indeed. HFC sat down with Nicole and Adam to discuss all the strange turns the film takes and shifting from live action to animation.
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Bionico’s Bachata is a refreshing gut-punch.
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You’ll either feel I Saw the TV Glow kick you right in that soft part of your soul, or you won't.
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Desert Road, which had its world premiere at SXSW, follows Clare as she finds herself trapped next to her crashed car within walking distance from a gas station and a fenced-off factory.
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Hyperreal Film Club interview extraordinaire Justin Norris catches up with Waypoint Entertainment’s co-founder and CEO, Ken Kao, and head executive and producer, Josh Rosenbaum, to talk about Waypoint’s journey, Cuckoo’s path to SXSW, and the ins and outs of film producing.
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Like a great magician you’d run into in a dark alley at 2 am, Cuckoo awes you with its feats of well-executed craziness.
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2024 SXSW premieres Ghostlight and Grand Theft Hamlet each take on the power of performing Shakespeare.
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Immaculate is simply a film that doesn't need to exist.
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