My First Film (2018)

A featurelength multimedia performance in which filmmaker Zia Anger interacts with media on screen and the audience using realtime text spontaneous Google searches audience directives and AirDrops Through the performance Anger probes and dissects her abandoned works to reimagine the relationship between the audience the filmmaker the movie theater and cinema and erases the line between a filmmakers corporeal body and their body of work A vital singular innovative work that explores what it means to be a woman and an artist the project showcases Angers sensibilities and pushes the boundaries of cinematic experience