Happer's Comet

Accompanying Tyler Taormina's debut Ham on Rye (also streaming on OVID), this hypnotic follow-up is a midnight mosaic that reveals a suburban town steeped in alienation. It’s the middle of the night, but things are far from quiet as the camera peers into the late-night happenings of various residents, we witness a number of them quietly escape into the dark... on rollerblades. Drawing on 1960s European art cinema and 1990s kid’s TV in equal measure, Happer's Comet presents striking individual vignettes that unfurl like a collective dream.