The Nowhere Inn
COMEDY | ENGLISH | 91 min
From real-life friends Annie Clark (a.k.a. GRAMMY award-winning recording and touring artist St. Vincent) and Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia, Sleater-Kinney, the best-selling Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl) comes the metafictional account of two creative forces banding together to make a documentary about St. Vincent's music, touring life, and on-stage persona. But they quickly discover unpredictable forces lurking within subject and filmmaker that threaten to derail the friendship, the project, and the duo's creative lives. From first-time filmmaker Bill Benz (Portlandia, At Home With Amy Sedaris) comes a densely woven, laugh-out-loud funny and increasingly fractured commentary on reality, identity, and authenticity. A story of two close friends who attempt to wrestle the truth out of a complex subject before the hall of mirrors that is their artistic lives devours them completely.
DIRECTOR Bill Benz
WRITERS + PRODUCERS St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein
STARRING Annie Clark (aka. St Vincent), Carrie Brownstein, Dakota Johnson
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION United States, 2020
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Warning: This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
“The Nowhere Inn is simultaneously satire and fan service, frothy fun and pretentious nonsense, depending on what the viewer wants it to be.”
— HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“[The Nowhere Inn] is consistently astute in how it handles its
tonal shifts and point of view permutations.”
— ROGER EBERT.COM
FESTIVALS + AWARDS
2020 Sundance Film Festival
Official Selection
2020 SXSW Film Festival
Official Selection
2020 Tribeca Film Festival
Official Selection
2020 Outfest: Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Official Selection
2021 Melbourne International Film Festival
Official Selection