Hey r/motion pictures! We're Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez, the filmmakers of the current meta-fictional function INVENTION which riffs on actual circumstances to discover the connection between fantasy and grief — each in private life and the way it displays externally in America at present. The movie offers with bizarre medication, shedding dads and the emotional logic of conspiracy idea towards the bucolic, literary backdrop of the Berkshires within the fall.

Synopsis: Within the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden demise, his daughter receives his patent for an experimental therapeutic system. That includes archive from actress Callie Hernandez's precise late father, INVENTION explores the method of grieving an advanced mum or dad, and the filmmaking itself turns into part of the method.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFtolT9DE6M

Watch on MUBI: https://mubi.com/en/us/movies/invention-2024

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Courtney Stephens is a author/director of 4 options and quite a few brief movies. Terra Femme, composed of beginner journey footage shot by ladies within the early twentieth century, was a New York Instances critic’s decide and has toured extensively as a reside efficiency. The American Sector (with Pacho Velez) follows slabs of the Berlin Wall put in across the US. John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Management Workplace (with Michael Almereyda) explores the lifetime of psychedelics pioneer John C. Lilly. Her movies have been exhibited at MoMA, The Nationwide Gallery of Artwork, The Barbican, Walker Artwork Heart, and movie festivals together with the Berlinale, Locarno, Rotterdam, Viennale, New Administrators/New Movies, Visions Du Réel, Thessaloniki, IDFA, BAFICI, True/False, Hong Kong, and the New York Movie Competition. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship, and grants from the Sloan Basis and the Basis for Modern Artwork.

Callie Hernandez is an actress, author and filmmaker. Her first movie was Terrence Malick’s Music to Music adopted by a decade of labor as an actress. She is thought for Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, Damien Chazelle's La La Land, A24’s Beneath the Silver Lake, HBO Max's The Flight Attendant, and Pete Ohs’ JETHICA. Upcoming work consists of: Rachel Sennott’s Untitled Comedy Sequence, Albert Birney’s OBEX and James N. Kienitz Wilkins’ The Misconceived. In 2023, she based an in-house movie studio which yiel