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My First Film (2024)

Drama | 100 minutes
2,22 9 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 100 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Zia Anger

Stars: Odessa Young, Devon Ross and Cole Doman

IMDb score: 6,2 (1.061)

Releasedate: 13 March 2024

My First Film plot

A young filmmaker, Vita, relives her first chaotic attempt at filmmaking 15 years ago. While making a semi-autobiographical film starring her friend Dina, Vita's eager but inexperienced approach throws the production into chaos, leading to significant disruptions and a near-fatal accident.

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My First Film is not Zia Anger's first film. My First Film is a film by director and writer Zia Anger about the making and failure of her first film. The film opens with the following sentence: "This probably shouldn't be a film… but it is". The first part of the sentence expresses a dose of self-knowledge. The last part of the sentence unfortunately expresses a kind of stubbornness to saddle the world with her product despite everything.

Anger is from the generation of filmmakers who, thanks to digital technology, are able to launch films on a micro-budget. I don't know her other work, but I did read that her film entitled "Always All Ways, Anne Marie" was rejected by more than 50 film festivals. If My First Film is representative of her work, then I understand all those rejections very well.

In My First Film the main character is called Vita and she is the alter ego of director Anger. Vita scrapes together 4500 dollars and puts a group of friends to work who are active as actors or crew members. It doesn't go smoothly and the filming is a real nightmare. The bickering between them is the main reason for this. Of course the film also wants to tell something. Something about artistic inspiration, something about private and professional crises, something about an unwanted pregnancy and the birth of a personal work of art, namely the film. Then something about the pursuit of authenticity and that in order to achieve authenticity you can dramatize and manipulate a bit. Yes, yes, these are interesting themes that are explored here in a particularly uninteresting way. It is bad.

The film consists of amateurish footage that even a mediocre found footage production would turn its nose up at. Still, you can get away with amateurism. Anger simply calls it experimental. Then it is apparently artistically responsible. I won't fall for that. My First Film is just a horrible monstrosity, Mrs. Anger!

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