Joanna Arnow
Directing
Biography
Joanna Arnow is a filmmaker and actor based in Brooklyn. She recently finished her first fiction feature "The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed", which screened at Cannes Director's Fortnight, TIFF and New York Film Festival. Her other films include personal documentary feature “i hate myself :)” as well as narrative shorts “Laying Out” and "Bad at Dancing.'
Born: January 1, 1987
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Known For
The French Italian
Doug and Valerie have made a mistake. Their hate-fueled obsession with the jerks downstairs — who always seem to be singing karaoke in a brownstone, who even does that? — recently led them to flee the city for Doug’s parents’ place upstate, giving up a great deal on a rent-stabilized apartment. Their friends are horrified, and regret is setting in. They start plotting their revenge— and before they know it, they’re staging an off-Broadway play starring their nemesis.
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Chained for Life
A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.
i hate myself :)
Nebbishy filmmaker Joanna Arnow documents her yearlong relationship with an open-mic poet provocateur. What starts out as an uncomfortably intimate portrait of a dysfunctional relationship and protracted mid-twenties adolescence, quickly turns into a complex commentary on societal repression, sexuality and self-confrontation through art.
Bad at Dancing
A perpetual third wheel and awkward outsider, Joanna increasingly inserts herself into the relationship of her more charismatic roommate Isabel. The two women test each other's sexual and emotional boundaries in this surreal manifestation of jealous rivalry.
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
Laying Out
This tersely lyrical meditation on sex and gender roles from Joanna Arnow features two fed-up mermaids lounging on a beach, drinks in hand, as they vent and commiserate over underacknowledged frustrations and unspoken desires.
F***ed in the Head
Scott is still sleeping with his ex-boyfriend and floundering through life when his mother calls to tell him his older sister Maggie is in the hospital with a brain tumor. Scott rushes to be by her side. As she lies unconscious he remembers the times their lives intersected. She was a party girl, a popular girl, she got around. Scott imagines what Maggie would say but ultimately realizes that you can never truly know anyone and decides to take a chance on love and life.
Staycation
Unforeseen circumstances have brought a man to New York City alone. A trip that was meant for him and his girlfriend — they were to see a show — is now just him. And there’s something off about his Airbnb.
The Travel Companion
Simon, a struggling documentary filmmaker, enjoys free flights courtesy of his best friend and roommate, Bruce, who works for an airline. However, when Beatrice, a more successful filmmaker, enters the picture and starts dating Bruce, Simon risks flying too close to the sun.
Filmography
as Jess
as Young Couple
as Joanna
as The Hospital Liaison
as Self
as Joanna
as A Vira Páginas