Across the flyway, cigar-shaped swifts cover the sky in aerial maneuvers, drawn from afar by instinctual desires. They find night rest in the vertical plane above a seasonal migration of young humans. Their remote wish for new horizons is fledged, morphed, and curtailed as the promise of summer slides into reality. The doldrums of everyday neon illuminate the labor that drives the American dream.
Program:
In Place of a Hollow Tree (2024, US, 8’)
Eislow Johnson
The Dells (2024, US, 72’)
Nellie Kluz
Observes the clash between fantasy and reality faced by international student workers newly arrived in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin – the self-described “Waterpark Capital of the World.” We see their hopes for a summer of American luck and prosperity rub up against their actual experiences, which are by turns disappointing, funny, and transcendent.
- Year2024
- Runtime72 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorNellie Kluz
Across the flyway, cigar-shaped swifts cover the sky in aerial maneuvers, drawn from afar by instinctual desires. They find night rest in the vertical plane above a seasonal migration of young humans. Their remote wish for new horizons is fledged, morphed, and curtailed as the promise of summer slides into reality. The doldrums of everyday neon illuminate the labor that drives the American dream.
Program:
In Place of a Hollow Tree (2024, US, 8’)
Eislow Johnson
The Dells (2024, US, 72’)
Nellie Kluz
Observes the clash between fantasy and reality faced by international student workers newly arrived in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin – the self-described “Waterpark Capital of the World.” We see their hopes for a summer of American luck and prosperity rub up against their actual experiences, which are by turns disappointing, funny, and transcendent.
- Year2024
- Runtime72 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorNellie Kluz