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Known for her distinct visuals and hit-you-like-a-Mack-truck storytelling, writer/director Nicole Brending doesn’t pull punches. Described by Indiewire as a “savage takedown of the Whitney/Britney industrial complex,” her debut feature film, Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity from American Popular Culture won several prizes ...
- Afterbirth
It's about post-partum depression, inspired by Brending's...
- Afterbirth
Nicole Brending - Director & Screenwriter. Nicole Brending is an award-winning filmmaker whose feature debut DOLLHOUSE: THE ERADICATION OF FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY FROM AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE picked up the Grand…
Aug 20, 2020 · His work on film and media has been published in Cinema Journal and The Journal of Technology, Theology and Religion, as well as edited collections including The 21st Century Superhero and The Directory of World Cinema. An interview with writer/director Nicole Brending by The Critical Movie Critics.
- Vincent Gaine
- Storyteller
- About Dollhouse
- Making Dollhouse
- Biting Comedy
- Wrapping Up
Nicole Brending is a working-class woman who loved telling stories in every way possible, but it didn’t start with filmmaking. “It developed into filmmaking. I was always drawing pictures to tell stories. I think I was a visual artist first. That slowly grew into a lot of performance as a kid. I did professional theatre when I was a child from abou...
Modern audiences are not ready for Dollhouse, but they need to watch it. The film is deceptively powerful in covering the rise and fall of a pop superstar and the lecherous world that rises around such fame. But it wasn’t always this way. “I had another idea around the time Black Swancame out. I had this idea for a psycho-drama, set in the pop worl...
Working with puppets comes with its own set of challenges. “It took about nine months to shoot, but that also includes the building of things. I would do a build for 10 minutes of the script, shoot that, take it down, then do another 10 minutes. The builds took a couple of weeks and the puppets a couple of days to a week, depending on how sophistic...
Dollhouseis raunchy, provocative, and thought-provoking. Could Nicole have made the same movie with actors instead of puppets? “No. Hell no. There’s no way. That was one thing about the puppets. Once I decided to use puppets, it gave me a lot of liberties. I could engage with the truth of things and be honest, but also palatable.” Nicole explains t...
Two of Nicole’s influences include John Waters and Todd Haynes, both avant-garde filmmakers with something to say and a bold way of saying it. Who are some others? “I would be remiss not to mention Trey Parker and Matt Stone. I think Jonathan Swift is somehow speaking through me. I like to think so. Also, Aaron McGruder, who created The Boondocks, ...
Feb 1, 2019 · Nicole Brending’s “Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity in American Popular Culture” has won the Narrative Feature Grand Jury prize and the Spirit of Slamdance award at the...
It's about post-partum depression, inspired by Brending's own experiences (the movie opens with time-lapse images of her body throughout her pregnancy). Brending contrasts the difficulties of new motherhood with social media posts that make it look like a breeze.
Feb 1, 2019 · Nicole Brending’s “ Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity in American Popular Culture ” has won the Narrative Feature Grand Jury prize and the Spirit of Slamdance award at the 25th...
