Matthew Porterfield

Featuring the great pop star Sky Ferreira (!) in her acting debut (!!), this delicate portrait of disenchantment in a Baltimore suburb is told in a wandering form to give direct voice to the pulse and connection of a community. Putty Hill is remarkable distillation of a time, place, and feeling.

Starring Jim Belushi and Zazie Beets as working-class inhabitants of Baltimore, this critically-acclaimed film thrums with a frustration that has little more than metal music as release. Born and bred in the fractious city, Matthew Porterfield resists sentimentalization and lays its dead ends bare.