There’s an inherent farce to the U.S. government, or so Hailey Gates suggests in her debut feature film, Atropia. Based on her 2019 short film Shako Mako, Gates expands her exploration of fake towns ...
You could see them from the freeway,” Gates told Variety on the eve of the ... She described it as a kind of gonzo film school. “I’ve always used it to get on other director’s sets.