Lyra Hill

Dans cette hilarante comédie noire, Madeline (Lyra Hill) et Naomi (Bruce Bundy) sont les jeunes patronnes narcissiques d'un restaurant chic à Chicago, le Ciao. Déterminées à aider leur communauté (ou peut-être à augmenter leur chiffre d'affaires tout en bénéficiant d'une réduction d'impôt...), elles recrutent un serveur et un stagiaire, et lancent le projet d'une grande fête de charité. Mais même les meilleurs plans peuvent tourner à la catastrophe, et une réaction en chaîne à la fois drôle et cauchemardesque, entre jalousies et mésaventures, va les obliger à organiser une nouvelle fête de charité, puis encore une autre...

After cheating on her mean boyfriend, Lewis, Brownie is hospitalized by a series of severe accidents. Instead of visiting her in the hospital, Lewis (assistant to the Dean of the local university) helps investigate two professors suspected of sleeping with students.

An homage to Gregory Markopoulos (specifically the film Himself as Herself) by Lyra Hill and Ross Meckfessel. This film was made for the Bride of Super 8 screening at the 2011 Chicago 8 Small Gauge Film Festival.

House Fuck is a 16mm lust letter to the textures of antiquity, the sensation of home, and the sounds of my radiator. House Fuck is about touching surfaces. House Fuck is an erotic encounter with personal space. This film, which runs 5.5 minutes long, was shot in 2008, edited in 2009, scored in 2010, and printed in 2011.

Five teenage girls gather for a party. Tensions mount as the guests exchange makeovers and hurl accusations. Tears in the bathroom lead to a ghostly kiss. In a circle around the Ouija board, they invoke a spirit. Their faces float in blackness. Five pairs of painted nails caress the planchette as it moves, swirling pale arms behind it. Our host becomes possessed. The characters overlap. Which of these women is not herself? Uzi's Party is a short experimental narrative written, directed and edited by Lyra Hill. All five characters are played by her sister Johanna Hill. Uzi's Party was filmed entirely in-camera on 16mm film, by means of intricately plotted multiple exposures and a cast of thirteen body doubles.

The effects in The Mystic were originally created in-camera on one 100ft roll of color negative film. These include: bi-packing with a strip of clear leader sewn with sequins, creating paper mattes of circles and text, and multiple exposures with more custom mattes, photographed with one actor (Aj Cesena) on a simple set. These processes required six passes through the camera. The roll was then rephotographed on an optical printer and extended to its current run time of 8 minutes. The soundtrack is made up of chopped and manipulated laugh tracks and audience sounds.