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Hyperreal Film Club in Austin, USA

If you love movies and strange shared experiences, Hyperreal Film Club in Austin is one of the city’s most surprising finds. This nonprofit started out in 2016 as a roving series of pop-up screenings in gallery basements and other unexpected corners of Austin with the simple goal of creating social movie nights around offbeat films and local shorts. Over the years, founders David McMichael, Jenni Kaye, and Tanner Hadfield made something more than just a screening series. They built a community o
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