The Secret Art of Human Flight

The Secret Art of Human Flight is a 2023 American fantasy comedy drama film written by Jesse Orenshein, directed by H.P. Mendoza and starring Grant Rosenmeyer.

Cast

 * Grant Rosenmeyer as Ben Grady
 * Paul Raci as Mealworm
 * Lucy DeVito as Gloria
 * Nican Robinson as Tom
 * Reina Hardesty as Sarah
 * Rosa Arredondo as Detective Reyes
 * Maggie Grace as Wendy
 * Sendhil Ramamurthy as Roger

Release
The film premiered at the Tribeca Festival on June 8, 2023. In March 2024, it was announced that Level 33 Entertainment acquired the distribution rights to the film, which will be released in theaters in July 3, 2024.

Reception
The film has a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 19 reviews.

Peter Debruge of Variety gave the film a positive review and wrote, "This high-concept, lo-fi indie drama could have gone spiraling off into insufferably eccentric territory, but instead remains grounded in its focus on a young creative type coping with the loss off his soulmate."

Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com also gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Writer Jesse Orenstein and director H.P. Mendoza are good at poker-faced goofiness, and there's a characteristically excellent supporting performance by Sound of Metal star Paul Raci..."