Harbor Island
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Short Films, 26-Feb-2024
A van-dwelling comic stalks an industrial zone at night. Calvin Lee Reeder writes and directs “Harbor Island,” a character study where a comedian, played by Josh Fadem, experiences solitude as he paces through a spot of desolation in the Pacific Northwest. In 2020, the Census Bureau reported a total population of three persons on the Seattle peninsula, Harbor Island. Here we meet Dan wandering from industrial yard, to overpass, to street corner. He carries a tape recorder and verbalizes random realizations in the form of awkward jokes. Just as extreme isolation sets in, Dan has run-ins with a reverse mortgage lender named Bill and a suicidal man in a car. With Reeder’s strange trio of characters, the film is a darkly humorous look at desolation through displaced stand-up comedy. -JM. Writer/Director: Calvin Lee Reeder. Cast: Josh Fadem, Sidney Jayne Hunt, Matt Olsen. DP: Jacob Rosen, Producers: Carlos A.F. Lopez and Megan Leonard. Editor: Lucas Heyne. VFX: Buzz Pierce. Music: Nicholas Brawley. Sound Mixer: Brian Sloss. Assistant Cam: Casey jo Grosso.
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