MY LOVERS ARE A COLLECTION OF BOOKS I'LL NEVER GET BACK short film
New Releases
•
7m 46s
MY LOVERS ARE A COLLECTION OF BOOKS I'LL NEVER GET BACK, 12min,. USA, Romance
Directed by Jess Coles
A weary actor falls for her doppelgänger at an audition.
Director Statement
The impetus for this film was the time I got ghosted by my own doppelgänger. Two small brunettes routinely mistaken for sisters at a party, two moms named Laura. Two writers of songs and scripts, lovers of lending books. She was me, but more interesting by nature of the fact that she wasn't me. And so when she disappeared, I was left feeling as though I had nobody to blame but myself.
Several years and a pandemic later, I made this film to remind myself that there is no blame. There is only the recognition that your best self is not outside of you, wandering the streets of Brooklyn and ignoring your texts, but inside of you, already poised to accept the risk of true self expression.
Up Next in New Releases
-
LAZARUS short film, audience reactions
LAZARUS, 38min,. Germany, Dance
Directed by Raphael Hahn
Lazarus is a film album by Nikolai Kemeny that refines the symbiosis of jazz and tap dance. In this 40-minute dance film, documentary footage blends artful, contemporary, urban culture and vibrant harmonies of world music traditions. In col... -
THE SOUL OF SICILY short film, audien...
THE SOUL OF SICILY, 34min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Margie Raimondo
The food we eat connects us to a vast web --from farmers to producers - involved in getting food from farm to fork. We probably don’t pause to think about it while eating an apple or cheese, but this global food system is ce... -
SALVAR short film, audience reactions...
SALVAR, 29min., South Korea, Crime/Mystery
Directed by Sangwook Ahn
Su-hyeong, who visited the shrine after asking around to find his missing mother, meets Grandmother Shin, a shaman, there. She says he was possessed by an evil, so he needs a salpuri(exorcism). In the process, it turns out that h...
