HAPPER’S COMET (2023, Feature Film)

Logline: A mid-night mosaic of a suburban town steeped in alienation. While peering into the late night moments of many residents, we notice that some of them quietly escape into the dark of night via rollerblades.

Status: Completed, playing at film festivals in 2022

Festivals: Berlinale’s Forum Section, Fantasia Film Festival, Indie Memphis Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest, Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Champs-Élysées Film Festival

Credits

Written and Directed by Tyler Taormina

Produced by Calogero Carucci, The Taorminas, Jordan Rebolini

Cinematography by Jesse Sperling

Edited by Tyler Taormina

Factory 25

Press

Tyler Taormina’s Happer’s Comet Features His Hometown Community Playing Versions of Themselves - Caleb Hammond

This is Taormina’s second feature, following Ham on Rye, which played the festival circuit in 2019 before getting released in 2020 by Factory 25. While that film had an unconventionally large ensemble cast for a low-budget feature, it was more or less conventional in how it was conceived and shot. Happer’s Comet represents more of an experiment for Taormina and his hometown collaborators.