Three by Joanna Arnow
A defiantly independent, different drummer figure on the New York film scene for the past decade, Joanna Arnow made her fiction feature debut last year with The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, which debuted in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival. In advance of the movie’s US release, catch up with some of Arnow’s previous films, deeply personal works that operate on a wholly unique tonal register poised somewhere between ironic detachment, dark comedy, and coolly disarming emotional directness.
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i hate myself :)
Directed by Joanna Arnow | 56 mins | 2013
Arnow’s unflinching, personal documentary about her year-long relationship with a an open-mic poet provocateur is a symphony of squirm-inducing scenes not for the faint of heart, including the filmmaker’s consultations with her self-proclaimed “naked edit... -
Bad at Dancing
Directed by Joanna Arnow | 11 mins | 2019
A small, beautifully polished, darkly comic gem that looks at “third-wheel” dynamics taken to the extreme, Arnow’s early short stars Keith Poulson and Eleanore Pienta as a couple, Matt and Isabel, and Arnow herself as Isabel’s roommate, whose compulsion t... -
Laying Out
Directed by Joanna Arnow | 5 mins | 2019
Arnow and Michole Briana White co-star as two malcontent mermaids who, in the course of draining drinks on the beach where they’re stranded, spill their innermost thoughts on relationships, gender roles, verboten fantasies, and much else besides. A stingin... -
First Films with Joanna Arnow
Directed by Metrograph | 6 mins | 2024
Filmmaker Joanna Arnow discusses the making of her first film, "i hate myself :)", and juggling multiple roles on set.
