Performed & choreographed by Andros Zins-Browne, Gravitational Pull has been excerpted from the short film Andros in the City— written & directed by Naz Riahi.
Andros, alone & spiraling into depression over the collapse of his dance career, finds himself unexpectedly spending a day with a stranger.
Andros in the City is a quiet, sparse film about performance, hope, & the gentleness between men. It’s the follow-up to writer/director Naz Riahi's debut, Sincerely, Erik, which has been nominated for a Vimeo Best of the Year Award.
Gravitational Pull/Andros in the City (2020) was filmed in Brooklyn, with a tiny cast & crew, over the course of three summer days.
Naz Riahi
Naz Riahi is a writer & director. Much of her work explores the spaces, emotions & opportunities of otherness & isolation, informed by her experiences as an immigrant from Iran.
She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2021. Her short film Sincerely, Erik received a Vimeo Staff Pick & subsequently won a Vimeo Best of the Year Award. It has garnered praise from Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), & The New York Times T Magazine.
Her essays, journalism, & fiction have been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Longreads, Catapult, & elsewhere.
She is the recipient of a NYFA City Artist Corps Grant, & lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her dog, Hugo.
