Changing The Game (Hulu 6/1), a festival-feted documentary that follows three trans teen athletes.
Woman In Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek, And The Remaking Of NASA (Paramount+ 6/3) goes where no Trekkie-courting doc has gone before.
Rat Film director Theo Anthony returns with
All Light, Everywhere (select theaters 6/4), an essay film about the relationship between camera technology and human biases. A struggling actress flails through the aftermath of a relationship with a counterterrorism specialist in Paul Felten and Joe DeNardo’s scrappy American indie
Slow Machine (virtual theaters 6/4). Kelvin Harris Jr., Charlie Plummer, and Jacob Latimore embark on a 48-hour bender/rampage in Nabil Elderkin’s
Photo: Grasshopper Film
If all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players, then it stands to reason that “acting” is neither a craft nor an occupation, but rather a state of being. It’s certainly true for Stephanie (Stephanie Hayes), the elusive protagonist of Joe Denardo and Paul Felten’s
Slow Machine, a struggling actress who is always performing regardless of whether she’s on the clock. She glides in and out of various environments, speaking in different accents and spinning detailed yarns about her background that are the stuff of exaggerated literary tragedy. It doesn’t seem to matter to Stephanie if people buy into her charade or not. The point is to build a character from within and bring them into the world so that they become real, a cross between quasi-Method research and an elaborate defense mechanism. It renders her entire reality slippery and sinister, but always filled with reckless excitement.
Rolling Stone Menu Chloe Sevigny, Eleanor Friedberger Star in ‘Slow Machine’ Trailer
Film partially depicts recording of Friedberger’s “Your Word”
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Slow Machine, a thriller film co-directed by Joe Denardo and Paul Felten that saw its premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam last year. The film also screened at the New York Film Festival last October.
Slow Machine centers on Stephanie (played by Hayes), a disillusioned actress whose tumultuous breakup with an intelligence agent, Gerard (Scott Shepherd), leads her to wanting an escape. Stephanie decides to hide inside a house where a band is recording an album, but her new environment comes with its own set of problems.
What s her deal? Grasshopper Film has unveiled a trailer for an intriguing, experimental indie film titled
Slow Machine, the feature directorial debut of filmmakers Joe Denardo & Paul Felten. This premiered at the 2020 Rotterdam Film Festival last year, and also played at the New York Film Festival and Vienna Film Festival. After a brief relationship with intelligence agent Gerard ends terribly, tired & disillusioned actress Stephanie hides in a house where a band is working on a record, which proves to be less of an escape than she imagined. This one stars
Stephanie Hayes,
Eleanor Friedberger, and
Chloë Sevigny. Described as a miniature epic of music, murder, espionage, and paranoia. Sounds freaky. This looks a bit