Hideous
Strange Way of Life - Opening Program
Popstar Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame, and blood. A three-part musical short.
- United Kingdom
- 2022, 20 min
- Director: Yann Gonzalez
- Director of photography: Vincent Biron
- Editor: Rafael Torres
- Screenplay: Yann Gonzalez
- Music: Oliver Sim
- Sound: Xavier Thieulin
- Cast: Oliver Sim, Fehinti Balogun, Kate Moran, César Vicente, Bimini, Jamie xx, Jimmy Somerville
- Producer: Luke Tierney, Simon Guzylack
- Production: Friend, Young
Yann Gonzalez
French filmmaker and producer Yann Gonzalez directed several short films before turning to full-length features with You and the Night, which premiered at the Cannes festival’s Critics’ Week in 2013, and Knife+Heart, which competed for the Palme d’Or in 2018. His short film Islands was also screened at Critics’ Week, where it won the Queer Palm in 2017. Hideous is Yann’s first project shot in English.