
2017 • 56m • Documentary
Availability
Available until Sep 22, 2038
Available Worldwide
Language
English
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About the film
"Boldly provocative” – Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine
"Funny as hell" - Matt Fagerholm, Indie Outlook
"It's refreshing to see a filmmaker embrace this honesty with such gusto" – Katie Walsh, Indiewire
Nebbishy filmmaker Joanna Arnow documents her yearlong relationship with an open-mic poet provocateur. What starts out as an uncomfortably intimate portrait of a dysfunctional relationship and protracted mid-twenties adolescence, quickly turns into a complex commentary on societal repression, sexuality and self-confrontation through art.
Directed and shot by Joanna Arnow Edited by Max Karson and Joanna Arnow Executive Produced by Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley Associate Produced by Lucy Bickerton
Festivals: Rooftop Films, Lower East Side Film Festival (Audience Award), Northside Film Festival (Best Feature Jury Prize), SF Indiefest, Unknown Pleasures, MDFF and NoBudge
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Crew
Joanna Arnow, Max Karson, Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky, +1 more
Awards & recognition
Lower East Side Film Festival
Audience Award
Northside Film Festival
Best Feature
What people are saying
“"Demonstrate[s] how love in various forms, vacillates between ugliness and beauty.”"”
Clayton Dillard
“"i hate myself :) is confrontational and empathetic, cringe-inducing and heart-breaking, political and deeply personal."”
Dana Reinoos
“"Boldly provocative"”
Scott Macaulay
““Arnow's intimate and unvarnished gaze upon herself, her sex life and the state of modern dating in Brooklyn calls to mind Lena Dunham's work. Both women are "brave" in their willingness to expose themselves and any flaws or mistakes or foibles they might have. But while Dunham presents a thinly veiled representation of her life in "Girls”…Arnow sheds any trappings of fiction, presenting herself, her filmmaking, her relationships and her sex life in an at times shockingly frank manner. It's refreshing to see a filmmaker embrace this honesty with such gusto.””
Katie Walsh
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