2024 | United States, United Kingdom | Short

Hemel (2024)

  • English English 30 mins
  • Director | Danielle Dean
  • Writer | Danielle Dean
  • Producer | Luke W Moody

STATUS: Completed

This film is currently not available.   

Returning to her hometown—the eponymous planned community, oriented around a factory—Danielle Dean alloys fiction and documentary, collective memory and autobiography, amid a hail of meteorites. Borrowing from Quatermass II, a midcentury science-fiction thriller shot in Hemel Hempstead as it was still being built, her film renders small-town xenophobia and corporate drudgery in the heightened tenor of an alien invasion plot.

Hometown Planned community Factory Fiction Documentary Collective memory
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