AC Unit: Frameline 2022/23 Completion Fund Spotlight

AC Unit
Directed by Grace Godvin · USA · 13 mins

Hilton and Drew are two best friends living in Brooklyn during the height of a heatwave. One day, when installing an AC unit, disaster turns their world on its head and the future becomes incredibly unclear.

“At its core, AC Unit is our love letter to New York City’s inherent queerness. Our relationship with New York moves the way the film does. One day we are head over heels; time runs away from us, without even a chance of thought to consequence. Others we’re threatening separation, time moving so slowly we find it intolerable that everyone else on the F Train lives with apparent ease while our shoes seem lead-filled. You can be anything in New York… how devastating.”

Grace Godvin was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. She is based in Brooklyn, and spent her first five years in New York City working at Saturday Night Live. She met Hilton Dresden and Drew Anderson through friends in Brooklyn, and they quickly bonded over a mutual fear of accidentally murdering someone via a fallen AC unit.