After taking us to the land of dreams in his 2021 feature, Strawberry Mansion, director Albert Birney is back to transport us to a virtual reality from the late ’80s. OBEX, which he co-wrote with filmmaker Pete Ohs (also serving […]

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There’s so much uncertainty in the world and strangely, as it always somehow seems to, the Sundance Film Festival reflects that. On a surface level, there’s the fact that no one knows where the 2026 Sundance Film Festival will be […]

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(After a successful festival run, starting with the 2021 Sundance FIlm Festival, Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s trippy Strawberry Mansion is in select theaters now and drops digitally on Friday, February 25 via Music Box Films. Bears Rebecca Fonté interviewed […]

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There were few films in the Sundance program this year that deserved a deep dive like Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley’s Strawberry Mansion, a film I reviewed as “the sort of quirky independent genre-hopping creative film that we go to film festivals […]

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(The 2021 Sundance Film Festival runs January 28-February 3, all virtually as well as with drive-ins sprinkled around the U.S.. Hammer to Nail is bringing you a ton of coverage so, keep coming back! Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? […]

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Founded in 1980 by Robert Redford to promote the art and craft of filmmaking, the U.S. Film Festival, rebranded as the Sundance Film Festival in 1985, has long been a beacon for American independent cinema. Ever since then, the annual […]

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I met with directors Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley on Sunday, May 7, 2017, at the Maryland Film Festival, where we discussed their collaboration on Sylvio, which premiered at SXSW (where it was reviewed by our very own Don Simpson). […]

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It is not too far of a reach to see Sylvio as a symbol for independent filmmakers in a Capitalist society. They are the outsiders, the weirdoes, who care more about art than commerce and...

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