SIDNEY & KIM (2023)
Director, writer, producer: Hazel Katz
Director of photography: Arlene Mejorado
Medium: 16mm, Aaton XTR
Sydney & Kim (2023) is influenced by domestic dramas, coming-of-age films, chick flicks, and cinema verite documentaries. The film embraces the theatricality of a dialogue centered script and imagines the motel room as a stage. The one-location setting becomes a metaphor for the claustrophobia of Sydney and Kim's relationship. Handheld camerawork emphasizes the internal worlds of the characters, alternating between boredom, sickness, and inebriation. Intimate verite scenes are interspersed with stylized wide shots of the desert landscape around the motel. This montage technique emphasizes how the main characters are 'alone, together.' Equally motivated by Mumblecore filmmaking of the 1990s and the New Topographics landscape photography movement of the 1970s, Sydney & Kim theorizes SoCal 'shitty heaven' as an allegory for the ubiquity of white feminine influencer culture. - Hazel Katz
View trailer here.
Director of photography: Arlene Mejorado
Medium: 16mm, Aaton XTR
Sydney & Kim (2023) is influenced by domestic dramas, coming-of-age films, chick flicks, and cinema verite documentaries. The film embraces the theatricality of a dialogue centered script and imagines the motel room as a stage. The one-location setting becomes a metaphor for the claustrophobia of Sydney and Kim's relationship. Handheld camerawork emphasizes the internal worlds of the characters, alternating between boredom, sickness, and inebriation. Intimate verite scenes are interspersed with stylized wide shots of the desert landscape around the motel. This montage technique emphasizes how the main characters are 'alone, together.' Equally motivated by Mumblecore filmmaking of the 1990s and the New Topographics landscape photography movement of the 1970s, Sydney & Kim theorizes SoCal 'shitty heaven' as an allegory for the ubiquity of white feminine influencer culture. - Hazel Katz
View trailer here.
Private Project
SIDNEY & KIM (2023)
238