PEREGRINE FALCON

The team behind CECE’S INTERLUDE returns! In-person Q&A with director Alsea Diana and star Tee Park after the show.

Did you know that the peregrine falcon is the fastest creature on earth, but only while diving straight down?

PEREGRINE FALCON stands apart, offering something sorely missing from contemporary indie and horror cinema: the kind of weird, dirty, difficult little movies that director Alsea Diana says she “used to stay up late and watch on IFC or download from sketchy torrent sites.” The film was inspired by the austere absurdity of filmmakers like Claire Denis and Jim Jarmusch, as well as a desire to strip back the stylistic excess of the post-digital age. PEREGRINE FALCON is a story set after a story. A horror film after the horror has run dry. A film about women that is weary of the burden of being “a film about women.”

A floating sense of dread and unease descends upon an abandoned warehouse where two young female serial killers take shelter to plot their next move. Within this refuge from society, the two women—Nell (Tee Park), a cryptic, demanding leader, and Beth (Autry Haydon-Wilson), her wholly devoted follower—spiral into a drug-fueled, cult-like power play steeped in idolatry and hedonism. Eventually, they take in a horny bar dweller who becomes a witness, participant, and victim of their sexual antics and Jungian associative word games. PEREGRINE FALCON is like the psychosexual crime dramas of the early aughts with the brakes removed, the intellectual SOV horror of Tina Krause’s LIMBO, and the visual sensibility of Claire Denis all rolled into one movie.