The Nowhere Inn

When Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia) sets out to make a documentary about life on the road with singer-songwriter St Vincent, things take an endless series of unexpected turns. Annie Clark is the woman behind St Vincent, and although exotic and flamboyant onstage, her offstage persona is anything but. A struggle of objectives between Brownstein and Clark ensues and The Nowhere Inn becomes a film like no other, a visually striking feast that is in parts comedic mockumentary, concert film and surreal drama that seeks to interrogate the true essence of artistic persona.

‘Even though we were very much interested in deconstructing certain narrative tropes, I still wanted to have somewhat grounded emotional storytelling, Annie is such a great performer on stage as a musician, but I think she really brought some acting chops to this. She has this fearlessness to her real presence in front of the camera, and that just helped make the heightened movie we wanted to make.”

Co-writer Carrie Brownstein, from an interview with Indiewire.