Lanie Zipoy

The Subject

A successful white documentarian deals with the fallout from his last film, which caught the murder of a Black teen on tape. While he films a new doc series, someone else tapes his every move.

Dispatches Amidst

"Dispatches Amidst" is a film that was made collaboratively, during lockdown. Filmmaker Lanie Zipoy asked friends living in different boroughs in New York City to record their urban environment. The film was inspired by Chantal Ackerman's aesthetic. It was part of the series Rhythms Routines Rituals at Theaterlab's reopening in May 2021.

Couleurs | Orange

"Couleurs | Orange" is a meditative film on the color orange. It explores orange as the original color for love, and how goldfish were named goldfish (instead of orange fish) because the coinage didn't exist yet. With beautiful, swirling imagery, "Couleurs | Orange" is a sweet, buoyant experimental short; an ode to a color we often take for granted. Special thanks to Bat-Sheva Guez for the use of her film 3F.

Love's Baby Soft

The 12-year old Dolores, a feisty preteen desperate to be seen as a grown-up in 1976 suburbia is on her humiliating, hilarious journey from girlhood to growing up. She fantasizes about sex, womanhood, work... and Freddie Prinze. The girl thinks she's got the lowdown on being a woman, but when her overworked single mom Janice hires Cleo to babysit her world collides with the super cool black 16-year old's, each learns painful truths about what it really means to grow up.

17 Things I Wish I Could Tell You Since You Died

"17 Things I Wish I Could Tell You Since You Died" is a film that honors the filmmaker's brother, who died of AIDS at the height of the crisis in the U.S. The film recalls things the filmmaker wishes she could relay to her late brother, including her own move to New York City and her belief that he would have really liked Hettie Macdonald's "Beautiful Thing." The film is an experimental exploration of loss and grief and unsaid things.