EVERYONEISUGLY is an independent studio for film, video, and live performance, exploring the ambiguity and disconnection of contemporary life. The studio’s work runs from improvised comedies to experimental horror, with an emphasis on visual storytelling and collaborative process.

Now. The studio is in post-production on Noche/Buena, an improvised short made in collaboration with actor Bradley Wayne Johnson, and on May 10th, 7PM, an improvised comedy set in Mexico City. In October, the studio’s first theater work, Night Market, a one-act play written and directed by Martha Hipley, premieres at the WordOut theater festival. This summer, EVERYONEISUGLY joins the Countdown Grabowsee residency outside Berlin to direct and shoot an improvised horror short on the grounds of an abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium.

Past work includes Noise in the Jungle (Ruido Sobre Los 40 Grados), an impressionistic documentary about an underground festival of punk, metal, and noise in Colombia, winner of the Audience Choice Award at the 10th Punkfilmfest Berlin and an official selection of the 2024 Bogotá Music Video Festival, and The Voluptuous Sea, an experimental video poem screened in Chile and Peru with Proyecto Memoria. In development: Screen Memory, an autobiographical documentary in the register of found-footage horror, and a Spanish-language horror series adapting Carmilla.

EVERYONEISUGLY is the studio of Martha Hipley, a writer, director, and visual artist working between Mexico City, New York, and Berlin. She came to film and theater from a decade in visual art and interactive design. Her fiction and essays live at marthahipley.com.