Logline & Overview

LOGLINE: Two interplanetary travelers must reconnect across dimensions to escape the hunters' world—before it's too late.

About The Film

Two interplanetary travelers are being hunted. To escape in time they need to reconnect across dimensions and find a way out of the hunters' world. Ecstatic Exit is a SciFi dance film, set in a world where intimacy is our most powerful technology.

Director Biography — Hallie Haller

Hallie Haller (they / them) is a South African film director and media artist who cares about media, the future, and you. Hallie's work explores how technology, intimacy, and the body shape contemporary and future African culture. Their distinctive visual style is shaped by movement, raw performance, and symbolic, surreal aesthetics.

Hallie has written a multitude of unpublished pieces, received hundreds of rejection letters, invested unwisely in passion projects, and risked it all for a big idea—more than once.

As a film director, media artist, and creative entrepreneur, Hallie has been recognized as a One World Media documentary fellow, Berlinale Talents Durban and Durban Film Mart Business Lab alum, a recipient of South Africa's NFVF Female Filmmaker Slate, a fellow of Electric South's New Dimensions VR Lab, a featured artist at Spier Light Art festival, and a collaborating filmmaker at the Centre for the Less Good Idea. Their short films have screened internationally at the likes of Aesthetica Film Festival, Eye Film Museum Amsterdam, and Encounters Documentary Festival. Hallie brings a bold, future-facing, South African perspective to their visual work.