
Jaded by the "incestuous, New York, socialite sh_t" that sells at prominent art galleries, Nate embarks on a quest for a more authentic brand of contemporary art. When a coked-up YouTube search leads to a music video from Delawarean Goth rappers Young Torture Killers, an Insane Clown Posse knock-off, Nate knows he's found his subjects. He soon drags his friend-with-benefits Bernadette to rural Delaware to shoot the group playing in their parents' basement. To "immerse himself... (Full plot summary below)
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Jaded by the "incestuous, New York, socialite sh_t" that sells at prominent art galleries, Nate embarks on a quest for a more authentic brand of contemporary art. When a coked-up YouTube search leads to a music video from Delawarean Goth rappers Young Torture Killers, an Insane Clown Posse knock-off, Nate knows he's found his subjects. He soon drags his friend-with-benefits Bernadette to rural Delaware to shoot the group playing in their parents' basement. To "immerse himself" in the group's culture and add an extra layer of realism to his work, Nate befriends the rappers and makes return trips to get to know them. But as his relationship with group develops, he becomes increasingly aware that, while you can take the boy out of the art world, you can't take the art world out of the boy.
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| Chicago ReaderDrew Hunt[A] wry satire of millennial art-chic posturing. |
| Moveable FestStephen SaitoAs Nate learns, it's one thing to create something attention grabbing, but quite another to say something. "Hellaware" does both. |
| Film Journal InternationalNick SchagerNew York art-world hipsters get raked over the countryside campfire coals in Hellaware, a frequently hilarious - if ultimately somewhat predictable - satire about artistic exploration and pretension. |
| User ReviewMatthew SBilandic's movie is funny, clever and most of all smartly constructed. While it amusingly pokes fun at the NY art scene -- this film is fully aware that stopping there would be far too easy. This movie is particularly effective because it's core aim extends past the scene, straight thru the heart of the lame "artist" and finally slams into the ultimate victims: the "audience" who buys into all the fake posturing but the misguided subject of the film's artist. And, it is in the casual exploitation of a group of suburbia misfits that Michael M. Bilandic's satire takes an unexpected turn. As funny as it is, the movie sheds an all too real glimpse into a dark corner of suburbia. It is both funny and unsettling that this seemingly lost group of teens are the only people who are "aware" |