As Seen at Sundance

On Sundance’s 40th anniversary, Park City continues to draw some of the brightest and most exciting new filmmakers and artists as well as longtime mainstays like Visionary Award honoree Kristen Stewart (in not one but two major releases) and at least two Duplass brothers (whom we know of). The lineup this year is full of music docs (Lolla, Devo, The Greatest Night in Pop, Dig! XX, and Luther: Never Too Much), stories about teenage-girlhood (Girls State, Good One, Suncoast, How to Have Sex, Daughters, Girls Will Be Girls, My Old Ass, Out of My Mind, Pariah), trans narratives (Ponyboi, I Saw the TV Glow, Stress Positions, Desire Lines, Will & Harper), and a movie in which Riley Keough plays a Sasquatch.

Old favorites, new faces, A-listers, and first-time actors alike braved icy sidewalks (Between the Temples–core) and came through the Vulture studio to talk cinema with Jay Jurden, peruse New York Magazine’s polyamory cover story, and get blinded by photographer Lucas Michael’s megawatt flashbulb. Here, Vulture’s Sundance portrait subjects, up close and personal.

Presence

Little Death

Will & Harper

10 Lives

Never Look Away

I Saw the TV Glow

Between the Temples

Stress Positions

Your Monster

Exhibiting Forgiveness

A Real Pain

Love Lies Bleeding

Freaky Tales

The Outrun

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Krazy House

Ponyboi

Devo

Rob Peace

Lisa Barlow

Hit Man

Winner

It’s What’s Inside

Suncoast

Thelma

The American Society of Magical Negroes

Dark Winds

My Old Ass

In the Summers

A Different Man

As We Speak

The Court Jester

Parish

Penelope

In a Violent Nature