US Premiere
"Residency is part of the North American new wave of indie micro-budget genre features" – Variety
Official Selection
2023 - Rotterdam - World Premiere
2023 - Motel X Lisbon International Horror FF - European Premiere
2023 - SXSW Sydney - Australian Premiere
Q&A Info
- Fri Jan 26, 7:00pm with director Winnie Cheung, producers Brendan (bunny) and Samara Bliss, assistant producer Elefante, and artists Amanda Mehl, Manuela Viera-Gallo, and Innua Anna Maria
- Sat Jan 27, 4:30pm with Reunion host Sean Glass.
February 2022 – the Locker Room, a New York City-based underground art collective, hosted its annual artist residency by granting ten women artists free rein to pursue their dream projects including film director Winnie Cheung. The native New Yorker used this opportunity to produce her first feature-length film — a haunting metafictional tale about female artists pushed beyond their limits at a cursed artist residency.
Tapping into the ethos of DIY punk cinema, Winnie called upon The Locker Room gallery to double as the set and the residents as performers. Winnie documented the experience of the month-long residency while simultaneously crafting deadly scenes in secrecy. One by one, each artist disappears until the “final girl” confronts the darkness that haunts the gallery. Of course, the final girl is the director herself. She is her own worst nightmare.
The gallery is real. The artists are real. The residency is real. The passion is real. The story may or may not be real.