Screening: Sunday, Sep 14, 6:15pm at Soo Theatre (Block 14) |
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Director: Get Super Rad
Narrative Feature, United States, 2024, 81 min, Color
As a child, Sun was worshipped by an extremist gun cult that was ultimately destroyed by the United States government. Fifteen years later, Sun lives in hiding with memories that torment her. She takes to the road, traveling back to the compound for closure. But little does she know, the cult’s former leader has been released from prison and is headed in the same direction.
The film was shot in Michigan.
Director/Writer: Get Super Rad
Producer: William Stertz
Key Cast: Kiley Lotz
Get Super Rad is a creative collective whose goal is to tell brand and narrative stories without ever falling into the trap of having a locked and defined style.
Our goal is to make content that feels unique and special to the project we create it for. Mostly, we want our work to look and represent the fun we had while generating it.
Get Super Rad was founded in 2013. It has since made two feature films with a third one on the way. We have created content for television, broadcast, and web. We have populated auto show screens, and worked on interactive web video content.
Get Super Rad has worked with pets, puppets, and people, and is always looking to explore new media to tell your story in an original way.
So Fades The Light: Right wing extremism terrifies us. Not just because of the immediate effect, but also because of the long-lasting damage it causes. In So Fades The Light, we put you in a place where you see the effects of that trauma, and the harrowing journey it takes to rebuild oneself, connect with truth, and deconstruct the past while building a future.
The people affected and manipulated by right wing grifters and Neo-Christian leaders are often plucked from places of deep isolation and vulnerability. They are sold comfort by people who claim they are the only ones who can save them from an uncertain, painful future. And while doing that, these people have all their colors, stories, empathy, and individual gifts stripped away.
Folks who have escaped and deconstructed this life are brave and capable. They must face overwhelming trauma and things they once said and believed and the shame of that. They must believe in a new core truth—that they are good and deserving of a full life and that, with the help of others, they can grow an experience that will not define them.
By subverting standard story structure and providing the audience dual perspectives on how our main character remembers their past, we show how religious trauma can cause individuals to become co-dependent on the cult leader as the keeper and narrator of the truth. But once the crack splits and light begins to peek through, time ultimately allows our hero to solidify reality and their compassion for themselves.
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