Went Up the Hill
Jack ventures to remote New Zealand for the funeral of his estranged mother and meets her widow Jill. But his mother's spirit returns to inhabit each of their bodies, instigating a life-threatening three-way nocturnal dance.
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"Went Up the Hill is a meditation on how an unhappy life transcends death and continues to affect the living. This is a super low-key, atmospheric movie that affected me deeply, mostly because it touched on my own life experience. The film poses the question, "What if the pain of life doesn't end with death?" I watched my abusive mother die a few years ago. Her wife and I were the only two people to experience this moment as she left the physical plane of existence. I had been emotionally estranged from my mom throughout my entire life and when she died, I felt nothing. Yet, som..."
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Filmed during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike and WGA (Writers Guild of America) strike without having an interim agreement with the actors' union that allowed the film's cast to shoot a film during the strike. The main actors are SAG members.
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Jack ventures to remote New Zealand for the funeral of his estranged mother and meets her widow Jill. But his mother's spirit returns to inhabit each of their bodies, instigating a life-threatening three-way nocturnal dance.