true
true
True is a filmmaker, writer, performer, and artist living in the Bronx. She specializes in longform narrative work, and has released one feature film (A Drunk Scorpion Will Sting Itself to Death, now streaming on Tubi and Amazon) with two more in post production (!!!$$$!!!QUIT_$MOKING_T0DAY!!!$$$!!!, coming September 2022, and WILL THEY BE TEARS OF JOY?, coming sometime in the winter of 2023). Her thesis film I HAVE RECEIVED SOME VERY BAD NEWS is an alternate, short-form imagining of her third feature film and functions on its own and as a companion.
Links
Artist Statement
I have, for much of my life, been hyper-aware of alternate modes of being and experiencing. Though I try to lean away from diagnostics, my own alternate mode of being is often labelled 'schizophrenia', amongst other terms you can find in the DSM-V. It is at once paralyzing and freeing and debilitating and blissful and terror and joy. My work, to varying degrees, functions for me as a desperate and clumsy attempt at verbalizing, releasing, sharing, and punishing this experience. I believe any form of language, whether it's the written word or the language of cinema, is useful but inherently tyrannical, so the work takes as many forms as possible in order to fill in the gaps. I hope that at the end of my life my body of work functions as a complete and total understanding of my existence. I am happily devoted to my frenzied way of making art, my love, my family, and my home.
I HAVE RECEIVED SOME VERY BAD NEWS
Romina is a woman who: takes baths, buys fruit, shaves her legs, smokes in the morning, gets breakfast, waits for the train, had a dog at one point. She sometimes goes on walks.