Expanding on his esteemed 2014 short, Dustin Guy Defa composes a multi-layered love letter to the streets of New York. Shooting on richly textured Super 16mm, Defa weaves together a series of shaggy character portraits, each lending its own harmonic register to this amiably ambling city symphony.
Referencing his iconic Neil Hamburger character, Gregg Turkington is a beautiful trainwreck of a comedian in Rick Alverson’s dark parable on the entertainment industry. Featuring a stellar cast including John C. Reilly, this Lynchian road trip to nowhere extracts humor out of misery—and vice versa.
This fiercely empathetic examination of pathological loneliness is the debut feature from indie auteur Dustin Guy Defa (Person to Person). Featuring a remarkable lead performance from Kentucker Audley as an aspiring stand-up comedian, Bad Fever is a prickly yet poignant study in social anxiety.
