The Oval Self-Portrait
Sunday, August 23rd

Rachel Hunt/writer
Lena Schmitt/director
Anna Belanger/actor

On a stormy night in 2007, at the dawn of the social media age, burnt-out vlogger Kelly finds a mysterious diary in the old house she’s retreated to. Reading it, she meets Ruth, a self-destructive painter from 1959 wrestling with her own unstoppable drive for artistic transcendence—even at the cost of her selfhood. Kelly must learn from Ruth’s mistakes or else helplessly echo them as she cannibalizes her life for content.

Content Warnings: Suicide, mental illness, death, online harassment