Impersonator
Short Films and Mid-Lengths
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19m
Directed by Andrew Norman Wilson | 19 mins | 2021
A Hollywood Boulevard character impersonator struggles to earn a living from photographs with tourists in its unrecognizable costume, and then returns to its LA River encampment to find the police confiscating tents. Without a sense of place or purpose, and a loose grip on reality due to the conspiratorial podcast it consumes, the Impersonator drifts deeper into the fantasy of its character.
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