If we don’t have real culture, we fabricate it. If we don’t have real justice, we manufacture it. If we don’t have real war, we reenact it until it feels real enough. 'Atropia,' 'Zodiac ...

In writer-director Hailey Gates’ directorial debut Atropia, she dives into the Bush-era culture of toxic masculinity, nationalism and Islamophobia with an amusing and profoundly absurdist sense ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This is the official image from “Atropia,” courtesy of the Sundance Institute. “Atropia” is almost ...

Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical ... eager — who get subsumed by hyper-masculine U.S. military culture, from its nicknames to hazing rituals. The movie isn ...

By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic In Atropia, Gates, who also wrote the screenplay, includes a hampering romantic thread between our aspiring actress and a soldier cast as an Atropian ...

They had done so in order to acclimatize American soldiers to both the violence and culture of the war they ... is not a product of pure fiction. “Atropia” was originally proposed as a ...

More a forced, one-note farce than the sharp satire it’s trying to be, “Atropia” is almost impressive in how it manages to allude to so many complicated subjects surrounding U.S. militarism ...

He challenged her to write the script for “Atropia” in only four weeks. “It was my most romantic writing experience because I was writing directly toward him,” she recalled. Gates and ...

Like many of the independent films that premiered at this muted edition of Sundance, “Atropia” has not yet sold to a distributor. By Kyle Buchanan The comedy “Atropia,” starring Alia ...

So she turned the idea into an unconventional love story instead, and “Atropia” was born. The film, which premiered on Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, was originally conceived as a ...