Wardell Milan selects Hereditary
Director: Ari Aster
2018 / 127min / DCP
Annie Graham (Toni Collette) has just buried her mother, but this is only the beginning of the travails that will face the Grahams—Annie’s husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne), their 16-year-old son Peter (Alex Wolff), and their 13-year-old daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro)—in Aster’s occult horror/family tragedy, which begins its litany of punishments with an accident involving a slice of chocolate cake, a moving car, and a telephone pole, and scarcely lets up from there. The Graham home, a character in the film in its own right—as well as the adjacent treehouse where Hereditary has its nauseating climax and the meticulous dollhouse miniatures that sculptor Annie creates—were all purpose-built by production designer Grace Yun and her team, giving this film about congenital curses the hermetic quality of a closed system in which its characters are unknowingly and inescapably trapped.
WARDELL MILAN
New York-based artist Wardell Milan works in mixed media, combining elements of photography, drawing, painting, and collage. His work often explores the duality between marginalization and freedom of expression, imagining spaces where the marginalized body is able to express itself and move about the world freely.
Distributor: A24
Introduction by artist Wardell Milan on Saturday, May 9th
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