Film
Happer’s Comet
Filmed on the weekends across four months during 2020, Tyler Taormina cast his own Long Island family and neighbors in the delicate cinematic meditation on late-night life. A premiere at the 2022 Berlin Film Festival, Taormina takes the audience through the nightly routines of suburban residents as they clean their offices, meet their lovers, apply make-up before going out, and rollerblade around town. Dreamlike, gentle, and strangely ominous, this sensory series of vignettes “is a hypnotic ode to the night owl” (The Film Stage).
Fri, Jun 16 : Q+A with director Tyler Taormina moderated by Michael Cera following the 7pm screening.
Sat, Jun 17: Q+A with director Tyler Taormina following the 7pm screening.
Leadership support for BAM Access Programs provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation.
Leadership support for BAM Film provided by the Ford Foundation and The Thompson Family Foundation
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