Screening Date: Sat. Dec. 9, 2023
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Austin Film Society
Cost: $15
Premiere Status: Austin
Run Time/Year/Country: 95min, 2023, USA
Director: Katherine Propper
Featuring a post screening with director Katherine Propper and stars Sauve Sidle, Malachi Mabson, Alex Brackney, Yung Bambi, and Kendra Franklin
Sol (Sauve Sidle) is an aspiring young rapper living with his best friend Wesley (Siyanda Stillwell), whose family has embraced him as a brother. After a raucous night causes Wesley to overdose, Sol abandons him at a house party, and eventually chooses to leave home for good and join a touring group of hip-hop artists. As they travel across Texas creating and performing, he discovers who he is as an artist and person.
Set to a lo-fi, genre-bending hip-hop soundtrack, Katherine Propper creates a hazy and enigmatic energy that compliments her leading man’s guilt and desire for friendship and belonging. Numerous musical performances, whether in their van or on a stage, allow the ensemble’s chemistry to shine. This film will be a crowd-pleaser to fans of Soundcloud rap and film alike.
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Film Title: alexalone - “All I Need”
Director: Drewsky Hulett & Ivy Chiu
Run Time/Year/Country: 7min, 2023, USA
Synopsis: "ALL I NEED" is the latest music video from alexalone's new album, ALEXALONE TECHNICAL RESEARCH. alexalone is an Austin-based, textural lo-fi indie rock and shoegaze project led by Austin musician Alex Peterson.