I’m a film critic and it’s my job to watch new stuff and recommend it to the appropriate audiences. I’m definitely holding up a mirror as I write this because I am not so blind that I can’t see myself in these statements. They’re probably always telling you how they liked a band before they got big and sold out, or that they saw that new film last year when it played the festival circuit. You probably have that one friend in your life that is always on the cutting edge of new music, art, or films. That’s kind of the double-edged sword of being an indie artist, that you might have produced some amazing material, but unless you’re in that scene others probably haven’t heard it. It isn’t until she interviews and records a local poet that you see her start to share her song ideas and downplay the praise that is showered upon her for her lyrical vision, all the while knowing that she has just copied the songs of other bands that she has interviewed and passed them off as her own. Deciding that she will focus on local artists and musicians, she begins to book interviews and build connections with those in the art community.Įarly on, Lennon can be seen writing the poems and lyrics of musicians in her journal, but it isn’t evident yet why she is compiling these pieces when she has already recorded them. In order to push herself out of her comfort zone, she decides to turn the hobby of recording people into a podcast. Lennon is a quiet and unassuming person that really doesn’t stand out anywhere that she goes and just sort of blends into the background of all these events. Something about the way that she meticulously curates her collection of voyeuristic media reminds me a lot of the title character of Patrick Kack-Brice’s Creep. She records it all digitally, but to her analog just sounds better, so she then re-records it all onto cassette and catalogs it in her home. While attending indie art shows and concerts at unconventional music venues, she records things from the events that she finds interesting on her phone. Lennon Gates (Sylvie Mix) works a pretty mundane job in the service industry, but her passion lies in the underground art and music scene. Just one step to either side of the spectrum could easily push this film into the same realm as films like Lucky Mckee’s May, or Barbet Schroeder’s classic Single White Female.
While it is not an overt horror film, the voyeuristic nature of the main character and the mood that the directing duo creates definitely flirt with the boundaries of psychological horror.
In Poser, the debut feature from filmmakers Noah Dixon and Ori Segev, we delve deep into the underground art and music scene of Columbus, Ohio to explore the story of a twenty-something woman who desperately wants to fit in and discovers just how far she will go in order to do so. Finding a sense of belonging is built into the core of human existence.
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