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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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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The South By Southwest Shorts Program opened on Friday with Texas Shorts, and our state is bursting with talent.
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Debuting at SXSW ‘24, Damien McCarthy’s Oddity is a horror film with the sole goal of scaring the living daylights out of you.
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In Alice Lowe's Timestalker, which had its world premiere at SXSW, love lasts for eternity.
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For the next week, our team of writers will be sprinting around Austin to catch as many movies premiering at SXSW as humanly possible.
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A selection of Sundance 2024’s independent film offerings, from queer neo-noir Ponyboi, to the experimental AI-structured Eno, to Sasquatch Sunset’s Sasquatch pee.
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Our team of talented writers was at Austin Film Fest 2023 to bring you the latest up-to-date coverage of all the movies soon to be on your watchlist. If you missed a review as it was published, we’ve got the full master list of our coverage right here in one convenient place.
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American Fiction is a challenging film, but it’s supposed to be: it’s a film that normalizes the Black experience on film and points its finger at your expectation of Black media.
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Seven surreal shorts, showcasing comedy, drama, and everything in between.
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