Vertical Horizon

× VERTICAL HORIZON
A Film by Andy Hope 1930

Running Time: 44 minutes
Year of Production: 2017
Language: English
Shooting Format: 4K

Synopsis:

VERTICAL HORIZON is situated “after the future,” as Franco Berardi puts it, when utopian visions have come to an end. Fran Athens, a character shifting between masquerade and sci-fi personage, tries to resist this proclamation of finitude, creating the illusion of embodying a character within a “real” science fiction narrative. Despite his efforts, the fiction repeatedly collapses and Fran finds himself trapped in a present journey, which is marked by untoward social encounters and relished by moments of estrangement, melancholia and alienation.

Executive producer: Hauser  &  Wirth

Screenplay: Esther Buss, Andy Hope 1930

Cinematography: Seana Carroll

Additional camera: Hunter Kerhart, Hiroshi Clark

Drone operator: Zhubin Rahbar, Elizabeth Tashiro

Technician: David Shull

Set design, props: Mike Lopez, Brendan J. McDonald, 
Sculptureberlin

Stylist: David Norbury

Locations: Karen Marie Hernandez

Still photographer: Mike Lopez

Producer/production manager: Karen Marie Hernandez

Production coordinator: Ewa Wojciak

Production supervisor: Jessica Green, 

Corinne Bannister

Production assistant: Shanalynne Wessner, 

Aaron Alberstein, Ethan Barrett

Financial controller: Avery Armani

Post production advisor: Jutta Pohlmann

Post production supervisor: Barbara Simon

Editing: Bettina Blickwede

Assistant editing: Maik Reichert

Sound design: Peter Kutin

Color grading: Stefan King

Digital mastering: Maik Reichert

Title design: Kerstin Riedel


Cast (in order of appearance):

Dog: Martina

Students: Aditya Aggarwaz, Boonsita Arunyakanon, 
Anahit Anna Azizian, Jackson Berry, Simran Bhari, 
Maria Paulina E. Bourlong, Janice Chan, 
Raymond Courtney, Nancy Gudu, Catalina Gutierrez, 
Trajan Heine, Woody Kim, Mingshan Li, Tyler Lowmiller,

Eric Lui, Cameron Maldkoff, Paloma Martinez, 
Meri Matevoeyan, Atonia Merkulova, Clemence Morin, 
Terrin Morris, Cecilia Napoli, Zoe Polunus, 
Fernando Leon-Ramos, Tyler Thompson, Mark Vougen, 
Faith Wada, Rachel Ward, Diana Zatikyan

Professor of Quantum Physics: Doug Noble

Security Guard: Antoine Cox

The Pedestrian: David Norbury

Oracle: Johanna Went


Locations:
Harper Dry Lake, Mojave Desert, Sun Valley, 
LAX Airport Landing Viewpoint, Highland Park Full 
Gospel Assembly, Otis College of Art and Design, 
University
of Southern California, Runyon Canyon, 
Bradbury Building, Wilshire Boulevard, Ennis House, 
Google Venice Beach, Red Studios Hollywood, 
Westward Beach / Malibu


Music:
Popol Vuh “Nachts Schnee / Night Snow” 
(Mika Vainio Edit) courtesy Edition Popol Vuh, 
licensed to SPV Records, all rights reserved

Popol Vuh “Vergegenwärtigung” courtesy Edition Popol Vuh, licensed to SPV Records, all rights reserved


Texts:

Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara, “Space does not exist, 
so time can,” 2008 (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical 
Physics)

Ray Bradbury, The Pedestrian, New York 1951; 
Fahrenheit 451 (60th Anniversary ed.), New York 2012

“To market, to market,” Songs for the Nursery, 1805


Special Thanks to Ewa Wojciak for her Los Angeles 
support, to John C. Welchman and to
Johannes Fricke 
Waldthausen / Goodroom and Edition Popol Vuh

Thanks:
Katharina Copony
Stephan Geene
Jacob Green
David Green
Gizelle Hernandez
Alexis Hudgins
Timo Kappeller
Dirk von Lowtzow
Roberto Ohrt

Marc Payot

Matteo Saradini

Romana Schmalisch

University of Southern California

Iwan  &  Manuela Wirth

Grace Zabriskie

© Andy Hope 1930, 2017