HALLWAY
2014 · 4m · USA
Directed by Leah Shore
Genres: drama, experimental, LGBTQ+
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
Shot in a Brooklyn venue, the film follows a queer couple's drug-induced, existential barrage of delusion and broken dreams, rendering the hallway of the title as both a literal space and a psychological anteroom between states of being.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The SXSW premiere and IndieWire online platform confirm this circulated through legitimate curatorial pipelines; Shore's location-as-argument strategy — the hallway as liminal psychological space — gives the work a formal thesis that the queer-trauma content alone would not supply.
Shot in a Brooklyn sex club, queer couple in drug-induced delusion. Single-location constraint can work — depends entirely on the performances, which the metadata can't tell me about.
Shot in a Brooklyn sex club and confined almost entirely to its corridor — Leah Shore turns an architectural constraint into a queer drug-spiral two-hander. Strong DP work (Henry Roosevelt) and a real commitment to airless atmosphere.
Festivals
- SXSW 2015