Tyler Taormina is a film director based in Los Angeles whose debut film, HAM ON RYE, premiered at Locarno Film Festival and went on to receive critical acclaim, including Best Films of the Year lists from The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Slant Magazine, and more. His work explores vast ensemble casts and draws influence from ’60s European art cinema and ’90s kids’ television.

His second film, HAPPER'S COMET, was shot in 20202 during the pandemic. Dreamlike, gentle, and strangely ominous, this sensory series of vignettes “is a hypnotic ode to the night owl” (The Film Stage).

Photo by Carson Lund