A 41-minute descent into a woman who runs from nothing and toward something unspeakable.
The Runner follows a strange woman as she travels to a small town where her violent compulsions are slowly revealed.
Sound
Boy Harsher's score—electronic dread that never lets you breathe.
Direction
Directors also created the band; vision is uncompromising.
Acting
Kris Esfandiari's physicality—feral, magnetic, barely human.
Director
Jae Matthews
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of musician-directed horror (Mitski, The Weeknd) but Boy Harsher commit fully to cinema rather than extended music video.
The 41-minute runtime was deliberately chosen for festival submission loopholes, then embraced as formal constraint.
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