The new film from co-directors Daniel Garcia and Rania Attieh, “H.,” which premiered in the NEXT section at Sundance and is now screening at Berlin, is an unconventional science fiction thriller — one of the most inventive and unique films I saw at the festival. Structured almost like a classical, Greek tragedy, it explores mass hysteria with remarkable calm. This is the third film from partners Garcia and Attieh who also write and edit their films together. In fact, their creative collaboration, and the way they finish each other’s sentences, even talking over each other, often resembles the young couple in their film, “H.” who are also artistic collaborators. I sat down with Garcia and Attieh after the World Premiere of their film at Sundance to discuss the surprisingly true stories that so many of the film’s bizarre events are based on, how they created ordered chaos, and their exploration of glitch art. “H.” follows two couples, each involving a woman named Helen, both of whom even live in Troy, a town in upstate New York, where …![]()
