GAZER Trailer: A Woman’s Sense of Time is Distorted in 16mm Neo Noir

Ryan J. Sloan’s directorial debut Gazer is a gritty fever dream filmed in 16mm. The psychological neo-noir, which premiered at Cannes Directors Fortnight, stars Ariella Mastroianni – who co-wrote and produced the film with Sloan – as a single mother in New York with a rare condition that interferes with her ability to interpret time. Sloan and Mastroianni shot it on a shoestring over weekends across two years while he was working as an electrician. Marcia Debonis, Renee Gagner, Jack Alberts, and Tommy Kang also star. Matheus Bastos serves as the cinematographer on the 16mm-shot thriller. Metrograph Pictures, which picked up the film following its Cannes premiere, has unveiled the trailer ahead of its February 21 release in theaters.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Afflicted with a rare and fatal condition that affects her ability to perceive time and causes sudden blackouts, single mother Frankie Rhodes relies on self-recorded cassette tapes to help her navigate the world. Desperate to make ends meet while she fights for custody of her young daughter, she accepts a risky but high-paying job from a mysterious woman, which draws her into a world of paranoid conspiracies that threatens to swallow her whole.

Watch the official trailer below.

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