My First Film (2024) — Zia Anger

United States, DCP, 100 mins.

Zia Anger’s absorbing, semi-autobiographic metafiction captures the failures of Vita (Odessa Young), a 25-year-old artist trying to make a nebulously personal movie in 2010. Reflecting on the preoccupations of a creative coming-of-age protagonist, Anger re-creates authentically uncomfortable, hilarious, and chaotic moments on set and behind the scenes with a cast and crew of friends and family. The beguiling result takes audiences through a circuitous unraveling to ask what it means to be a voyeur of one’s own messy life. Featuring a cameo by Sarah Michelson as an abortion doctor and music by Perfume Genius.