Directed by Laurie Simmons

Film Movement

Cinematography by Tom Richmond

Starring Laurie Simmons, Lena Dunham, Parker Posey, and Josh Safdie

Available on Amazon

Color grading

Sound design, sound edit and 5.1 mix. Feature film.

Premiere Venice Film Festival 2016

A 65-year-old single artist living in New York City has a good life: a stable teaching job, successful friends, and a loyal, aging dog named Bing. As her dream of a respectable place in the art world becomes more elusive, her frustration with her lack of recognition feels alarmingly urgent.

PRESS

“An amusing riff on the way one’s creative work bleeds into one’s personal life… Simmons expresses a singular voice and style.”

–Los Angeles Times

“An art-world satire, a gentle drama of midlife crisis, an incisive study of star presence and its opposite, a re-creation and reclamation of golden-age Hollywood splendor, a low-key stoner comedy, a country idyll with a ramshackle party vibe and Lena Dunham and Parker Posey cameos, a romance so quiet that its sudden insistent erotic tug comes as a joyous surprise — well, My Art, the feature debut of filmmaker-photographer-artist Laurie Simmons, proves coherent in form and feeling despite bustling with modes and ideas and curiosities. As writer and director, Simmons sets the disparate elements dancing together rather than colliding. As a performer, wry and ever so slightly comically hesitant, she imbues each sequence with a piquant longing, a restless intelligence, a passion to create in spite of the world’s indifference that makes her character’s struggles — and also the existence of the film itself — moving. Simmons collapses the distance between protagonist and creator so winningly that the fact that you’re watching My Art seems the film’s own happy ending.”

–The Village Voice