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a scene from lena dunham’s “tiny furniture. ” [ photo courtesy of ifc films ]
with that in mind, watching tiny furniture is a great lesson of creativity within constraints .
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before girls, there was tiny furniture, the film that introduced us to lena dunham’s fully formed voice .
“tiny furniture” is a quiet movie without a lot of action, but the insecure, unsure heroine is someone many women can identify with –– even if it’s just a tiny part of them .
lena dunham plays aura and alex karpovsky plays jed, a youtube star who treats dunham poorly, in her film tiny furniture .
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tiny furniture
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tiny furniture is an observant portrait of those frustrating, entitled, complicated, unflattering moments when you suspect you could be everything but feel like nothing .
tiny furniture, lena dunham’s (writer - director - star) first feature film, premiered at sxsw in 2010 and won the jury prize, setting forth the career that dunham has today. tiny furniture centers on aura (dunham) who returns home to new york after graduating from her ohio college .
lena dunham plays aura and alex karpovsky plays jed, a youtube star who treats dunham poorly, in her film tiny furniture. joe anderson via ifc films hide caption
lena dunham' s big dreams rest on' tiny furniture' the filmmaker was just 23 years old when she won the south by southwest jury prize for her second film, tiny furniture. the comedy stars dunham and her real - life mom and sister playing fictionalized versions of themselves in their real - life apartment in new york city .
without tiny furniture it’s hard to imagine that girls would have ever existed, or if it did, it may not have ever reached the popularity and influence it has today. executive producer of girls, judd apatow, reached out to lena dunham after watching tiny furniture and the rest is history. if you like hbo’s girls, enjoy the independent film world, and / or just want to watch someone else struggle through adulthood without looking in the mirror, i recommend checking out tiny furniture as soon as you can .
lena dunham (background) cast her real - life mom, laurie simmons, to play her, uh, mom in' tiny furniture.' (anderson / ap )
dunham is a writer and filmmaker living in new york with her parents and her sister. she was recently nominated for two independent spirit awards for her work on tiny furniture .
“tiny furniture” has won several awards, including the prestigious jury prize at the south by southwest independent film festival in austin, texas. but it has brought dunham more than accolades .
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she wrote “tiny furniture” in a four - day fever in october, shot the film in november and after getting a waiver for a late submission, sent it to sxsw in january .
tiny furniture was shot using the canon 7d on a very low budget (most sources are saying below $ 50, 000). the first draft of the scrip for tiny furniture was written quickly over a few days. when they had the script ready to shoot, they made the decision to use the 7d and they shot over the course of a few weeks .
tiny furniture is available to stream on netflix and showtime, and is available for rental on amazon, itunes and more. it can also be purchased through the criterion collection web store .
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another particularity of tiny furniture, which i found refreshing, was that it is almost entirely shot camera on tripod. dunham compensates an absence of camera movement with rich settings and, again ,
never overrun by the self - conscious quirk or straining obnoxious affectation of some of her peers’ films, dunham’s tiny furniture is a modest, honest confessional that finds joy and poignancy in the tiny, awkward, stupid moments in life, and points to the emergence of a potentially giant talent .
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“tiny furniture” remains available on demand and continues to play throughout the u. s. a full list of screenings can be found here. the spirit awards will air on ifc on february 26th .
dunham is a writer and filmmaker living in new york with her parents and her sister. she was recently nominated for two independent spirit awards for her work on tiny furniture. lena dunham hide caption
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her parents are artists carroll dunham and laurie simmons, the latter of whom appeared as her fictional mother in tiny furniture. she' s also been in a relationship with musician jack antonoff since 2012 .
taken at face value, tiny furniture is an amiable comedy - drama with an unlikely heroine and an assortment of quirky supporting characters. the picture is more intriguing, though, when you consider its unusual casting .
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dunham joined terry gross for a conversation about tiny furniture, which she wrote, starred in and directed (earning a second sxsw festival award, the
chicken and egg
prize for an emergent woman narrative filmmaker) .
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we classified tiny furniture as a successful dslr film for many reasons. not only was it added to the criterion collection roster of films, picked up for a distribution deal by ifc and won two prestigious awards at sxsw. but the director of tiny furniture, lena dunham, was also chosen as one of the “25 new faces” by filmmaker magazine. on top of all of this success, the writer / director landed a deal with hbo to direct the hit series “girls” .
before her critically acclaimed new hbo series girls (premiering this weekend), before her breakthrough feature tiny furniture, writer - director - actor lena dunham had already made a name for herself posting short films on youtube. check out one of the…
that’s what ori, a robotic furniture system designed for tiny apartments, would allow you to do. it’s a single plywood unit that can act as a bed, home office, closet and storage space, and it changes configurations on command .
throughout the day, the apartment keeps shifting. the furniture inside is designed to transform easily from use to use–working, eating, watching a movie, sleeping–and as someone moves the furniture around, the projections on the walls automatically transform as well .
lena dunham is a good contact to have in the movie business. just ask her sister, mother, best friends and neighbors. those are the people she cast to co - star with her in the largely autobiographical, independent film “tiny furniture. ”
tiny luxury follows husband and wife tiny home builder duo, tyson and michelle spiess. together with michelle' s two brothers and their wives they run the country' s top high - end tiny home - building company. they make luxurious custom homes that can all hit the highway so their clients can live however they want, wherever they want. in each episode we' ll see a tiny home built from start to finish as this team works to fit every single client wish item into a space suited to travel anywhere .
disagree with you mike. tiny furniture is a interesting film and girls is one of the best shows on tv right now, in my opinion. just because you don' t get it or like it doesn' t mean it isn' t good .
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at least judd apatow and hbo seem to think so – or hope so. based on the festival success of tiny furniture, apatow has shepherded dunham onto the small screen, where she will write, direct and star in her own series, girls, this coming spring (which based on the trailer looks to be much a continuation of the style of this film). and criterion, a generally reliable indicator of established or nascent genius, is already on board with dunham, releasing tiny furniture in an impressively robust two disc set .
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over the course of 19 days in 2009, the
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creator filmed her acclaimed independent feature film ,
tiny furniture
at the loft, which is housed inside a former textile warehouse and is owned by her parents, fine artists laurie simmons and carroll dunham .
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ori is taking the tiny home movement to a whole new level. a startup born out of a mit media lab project, ori thinks furniture should be able to change form and function with one tap from your smartphone. and the company hired yves béhar to make it happen .
located on the side of the furniture module is a pyramid - shaped control panel, which features buttons for altering the layout and lighting .
the film’s title, “tiny furniture, ” derives from the art of the mother character, played by laurie simmons, who in real life is a very successful fine - art photographer whose work often involves dolls and dioramas and who is married to the painter carroll dunham. in ms. dunham’s film, aura’s mother makes photographs by moving teeny pieces of furniture around while juxtaposing them with larger human elements that don’t seem to fit .
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as someone who has screaming matches with her ikea furniture during the build phase, i imagine struggling to assemble furniture that brings robotics into the equation. the good news is that ori handles the installation for individual customers, while developers might someday outfit apartment units before occupants move in .
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austin, tex. — in the movie “tiny furniture, ” a young woman named aura breaks up with her boyfriend, returns home from college, moves in with her wildly successful artist family in a pristine tribeca loft, all the while trying to find a place to stand in the world .
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and yet aura does this without destroying the ease of the viewing experience. “tiny furniture” is conventionally entertaining without relying on a string of clichés, resulting in an unlikely combination that makes the occasional unevenness of the screenplay a lot more bearable than the neat, sappy design of “love and other drugs. ”
shot on location in her mother’s nyc loft, and filmed on a small budget with a minuscule cast in a short timeframe of just 18 days, “tiny furniture” might be considered a small movie, but it’s got a big heart — dunham said she considers the movie a love letter to her family .
there is a strange space between when you leave school and when you begin work. you are idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. you grow restless. you cannot go back and are uncertain how to proceed .
tiny furniture
is about aura, who is becalmed on that sea .
sensor - rigged actuators control the moving and sliding. those sensors are embedded as a safety precaution, to avoid moving furniture into or onto someone .
if i counted well, tiny furniture is composed of 70 scenes (we probably can debate that number). out of these 70 scenes, 19 consisted of a single take, and 13 of two shots, which means that almost half of the movie is built on: dialogs and composition within the frame .
the system is now in beta testing and is a business - to - business product. ori is working with luxury developers boston properties, skanska and samuels associates to install the furniture in high - end rentals in boston. the start - up is working with designer yves béhar on the furniture designs .
but the hype surrounding “tiny furniture” is deserved. dunham captures the pains of a creative person with some big shoes to fill, who has come of age in a generation bred on relentless exhibitionism. most successfully, the film and the naturalistic way it was made allow for the ambiguities of real life to come through .
both “tiny furniture” and “drugs” center on twentysomething women unsure of what they want to do with their lives (and to fill their empty schedules, both aura and maggie take jobs waiting tables). while maggie’s predicament runs deeper than aura’s, hathaway’s stardom makes it impossible to believe that everything has gone awry for her character, whereas aura’s frustrations feel comparatively legitimate. even so, dunham has an ear for dialogue that lends a brisk, fun sensibility to “tiny furniture” even as she colors outside the lines of industry norms. that’s not to say the movie lacks issues of its own; rather, the dunham factor overpowers many of them .
i' m sorry, but lena dunham is the product of nepotism, not merit, so she shouldn' t be taken seriously nor should she be giving advice. tiny furniture is horrible and to say that $ 65, 000 is not much to work with on a mumblecore film is a disgrace to all filmmakers .
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winner of the narrative feature prize at the sxsw film festival, “tiny furniture” should strike a responsive chord in anyone who remembers — or is experiencing — that post - college period in life when you’re impatiently eager to invent yourself, yet hesitant to get started. written and directed by newcomer lena dunham, who also plays the [ … ]
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that’s also the story, more or less, of lena dunham, 23, who wrote, directed, and played the lead role in the film, which sounds like a senior project gone amok, except that “tiny furniture” won the juried narrative film prize — essentially the best feature film — at the south by southwest music and media conference here .
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the title “tiny furniture” refers explicitly to the art work that siri makes at home, as well as to the ways in which—as the film follows aura to jobs, trysts, and parties in the months immediately following her graduation from college into an unwelcoming economy—replication is utilized in art and reality is reduced to plaything. it also seems to refer to the film’s “alice in wonderland” quality. almost every character seems a study in some kind of mental illness, and, as when alice devours the eat me cake, the furniture can grow suddenly tiny around aura—who looms large in her own mind, though, to her credit, she seems always game and rarely defeated, despite all. she almost never says no .
i would not like to rally for a hundred “tiny furniture” clones, but only for an uptick of young anti - heroes willing to look imperfect in close - ups. when life appears unflattering, it also seems more honest: the affluent, vanilla insularity of aura’s world invites plenty of resentment for her whiny demeanor, but since she embraces her life as a spoiled brat, dunham leaves room for interpretation. you can read “tiny furniture” as an indictment of lazy rich kid behavior or a tentative defense for it. (her comparatively sane younger sister offers a de facto argument in favor of their surroundings, suggesting aura’s bitchy soul - searching has more to do with her internal issues than a cushy upbringing. )
production: a submarine entertainment presentation of a tiny ponies production. produced by kyle martin, alicia van couvering. co - producer, alice wang. directed, written by lena dunham .
much has been made of dunham’s willingness to display her body in both tiny furniture and girls, her lack of fear about being subject to scrutiny that terrifies actresses whose bodies more clearly conform to hollywood standards. but what’s radical about dunham isn’t just her willingness to take off her clothes, but what kinds of stories she tells about herself, both clothed and nude .
production posse: dunham has worked frequently with mentor judd apatow, and appeared in his 2012 film this is 40. she also cast friends alison williams, zosia mamet, and jemima kirke on girls to play her best friends; kirke in particular appeared in her early film tiny furniture. she' s even featured her mother laurie simmons and sister grace in multiple projects .
creative nonfiction ’s necessity in her evolution towards the drastically more mature tiny furniture is obvious: she’s trying things on, seeing what works and what doesn’t—e. g. a meta - story, involving a teenage girl (also played by dunham) kidnapped and harried by a lecherous high school teacher is too clever by half for what dunham is trying to do and say, but is exactly the sort of “too clever” a college student would think was brilliant, even if it falls flat in execution. fortunately, by the time she gets to making tiny furniture (not long after making her student film), she has already recognized what needs cutting and paring down and where her true strengths lie, which only augurs well for her continued work .
a bay area couple dreams of the flexibility and financial freedom of downsizing to a 220 - square - foot tiny home. the team builds one of their most ambitious tiny homes to date which includes automated staircases and a 160 - square - foot rooftop deck. the couple also wants to connect with nature, so michelle and the design team incorporate wood elements and live plants into the home .
us air force officer, adam, and his wife, shaelyn, seek tiny heirloom' s help in building their dream tiny home, with easy mobility to get up and go for their next relocation. tyson is tasked with building a 50 sq ft bathroom and a large kitchen, complete with a kegerator. michelle brings the couple' s tastes to life with a craftsman - inspired design .
researchers from mit' s cityhome project developed the actuators, electronics and software that enable the heavy furniture to glide and shape - shift, as well as connect to other smart devices .
designers have recently proposed a variety of solutions for compact living, which range from manually reconfigurable furniture to a space - efficient
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lena dunham’s hyphenate debut tiny furniture is somewhat of a tiny miracle, a film that by any metric should in no way succeed at all, but does so anyway, with so much intelligence, humor and charm that it made me wonder if dunham had somehow tricked us into thinking this was her first feature (which maybe she kind of did – more on that below), and that we were watching the work of a seasoned pro. it’s the raw diamond in the rough that comes along every so often to rekindle my hope for the future of young independent film in america .
today, designer yves behar of fuseproject and the mit media lab unveiled ori, a new line of furniture solutions billed as the first
intelligent, responsive systems combining robotics, architecture, and design .
what does that mean exactly? well, remember all the magical transforming tiny apartments we’ve seen, with movable walls and multifunctional components? ori—short for origami—basically takes those concepts and automates them .
the rebuttal to this rant is that there’s usually something productive about mining for talent on the festival circuit, and “tiny furniture” quietly emerged from this makeshift vetting process. the flurry of coverage dunham has received in recent weeks implies that her new movie found instant success, when in fact she first set down her training wheels a year earlier with the sxsw non - competition selection “creative nonfiction. ”
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the company' s namesake ori system is named for the japanese word
origami ,
the art of folding paper, and literally does just that. the technology uses modular furniture and software that makes your furniture reconfigurable, transforming small spaces from living rooms into bedrooms and even workspaces with the push of a button. the system is designed for spaces between 300 and 500 square feet .
“tiny furniture” is about aura (dunham), a young woman with a college degree but few prospects. she moves back in with her mother and sister shortly after graduation. she ends up working in a low - paying job and meeting low - life men who take advantage of her. aura reconnects with a high school friend who raises her spirits while convincing her to lower her expectations about life .
tiny furniture belongs somewhere in that general still - unnamed category, but its bright primary colors and flat, formal compositions, pleasingly shot by jody lee lipes, also owe something to wes anderson. dunham takes bujalski' s trick of ending on an unexpected beat—a moment that somehow doesn' t feel
important
enough to be a movie ending—and pushes it to the extreme, with the film seeming to cut off abruptly after a random line of dialogue. i rewatched the ending of tiny furniture a couple of times, trying to decide a) whether i knew what the ending was trying to do and b) whether i liked it. i' m still not sure i know the answer to either of those questions, but it' s noteworthy when a movie comes along that even makes them worth asking .
watching tiny furniture, dunham’s earlier feature film, implies that these kind of sexual encounters are something dunham or those close to her have endured, and yet that often passes without comment. hannah’s lax attitude to sexual health in girls may also be unfortunately reflective of too many girls’ ignorant approach to stds, but again i don’t see why showing this on the small screen is progressive or helpful in any way .
daley comments, “jody shot at 24fps and used many standard settings except that he activated highlight protection to help control clipping. the 7d was young at the time tiny furniture was shot so many of the camera’s optional settings had yet to be tested in the field. jody used many default settings and the results were very good. the iso settings were 200 iso for exterior and interior days and 400 iso for interior nights. ” lipes adds that “night exteriors ranged from 600 to 2000 iso but mostly were at 1000. ” continues daley, “i definitely recommend shooting with prime lenses (as was the case with tiny furniture); the sharpness and depth of field are the closest to 35mm film than i’ve seen on any hd format. but beware of moiré, not just in clothing but in hair as well. ”
if there ever was a hipster queen, it would be lena dunham, which has been made apparent thanks to her hbo series girls. but one look at dunham’s 2009 debut film, tiny furniture, puts hannah and company practically in the same yuppie category as the cast of gossip girl. warning: the plot description that follows may result in severe eye strain, because you’ll likely be rolling them a lot .
disc two is comprised of dunham’s extant film work before tiny furniture. these include four short films which she did indeed post on youtube (long since taken down), and her (technically) first feature, a 60 minute student film titled creative nonfiction. the short films almost do seem more like provocations / performance art, though they do evince the oddball humor and wry juxtapositions that dunham would deploy later .
tiny heirloom is tasked with building their smallest and ultra - lightweight tiny home to date, but that doesn' t stop them from packing the home with as many luxuries as possible. chicago artists barnaby and margaret look to move in together in the 100 - square - foot home and travel around the west coast. the build team maximizes space while the design team brings the couple' s rustic and modern vision to life .
married california couple shawn and shelly have always dreamed of owning a vacation home in maui, but instead of spending a fortune on beachfront property, they turn to tiny heirloom to build their ideal tiny home. tyson and michelle bring the traditional yet rustic touches of the home to life while maximizing space for friends and family, including a chef' s full - sized kitchen, two bedrooms and a full - size outdoor deck .
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tiny furniture (ifc films), the second film made by its 24 - year - old director, writer, and star lena dunham, couldn' t be more aptly titled. dunham plays with the accoutrements of her own life like a child with the contents of a dollhouse. the dolls are members of her own family: dunham' s mother, the artist laurie simmons, plays the artist mother of dunham' s character, aura; her real - life younger sister, grace dunham, plays aura' s sister nadine. their dollhouse is a pristine, snow - white tribeca loft where dunham' s parents actually do live. and the
tiny furniture
dunham - the - director moves around consists of elements from her life, cunningly rearranged to tell a story about someone who may or may not be the director herself .
the toughest thing about “tiny furniture” was the camera we were using (the canon 7d), it’s not very forgiving and it’s painful to operate. my longtime friend and ac quit the first day cause it was so difficult to work with. in the end, the movie got a lot of attention because we were one of the first couple features to work with that technology, but it’s not something i’m planning on doing again .
in medford, oregon, karin dreams of building a portable tiny home identical to her current house for her and her granddaughter, halé, to travel the country in and visit friends and family. tyson and the guys get to work building a tiny home replica that includes a full - size baker' s kitchen and a custom - built wine rack, while michelle and her design team bring karin' s cozy beach cottage to life with coastal vibe materials .
despite what you may think about the uppity characters depicted on girls, the suave styling of her childhood home, or the banality of her plotlines, there’s no denying that lena dunham is different. after tiny furniture gained accolades and girls launched on hbo, the general tendency was to try and examine these works as encapsulations of “our generation”. were the experiences depicted accurate? where they socially informed? did they help our image or hurt it ?
one of the reasons why i waited so long before publishing this article is that i wanted to go into a long analysis of how tiny furniture was shot, dissecting each scenes, their timing etc. but then (life happened and) i remembered that i am not a scholar and i should probably let someone who has a ph. d in films study and gets paid to write books about it do it better than i will ever can .
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never overrun by the self - conscious quirk or straining obnoxious affectation of some of her peers' work, lena dunham’s film is a modest, honest confessional that finds joy and poignancy in the tiny, awkward, stupid moments in life .
why do i feel such affection for
tiny furniture
? it’s a well - crafted film, for one thing. for a first picture, it shows a command of style and purpose; dunham knows what she wants and how she needs to get it, and succeeds. her character aura is not charismatic or glowing or mercurial or seductive or any of those advertising adjectives, but she believes she deserves to be happy, and we do, too .
everybody knows lena dunham from her hit show ‘girls’ on hbo and / or her multi - million dollars deal to write her future first book, but dunham’s career really started with tiny furniture, her second feature film shot for less than $ 50, 000 on a 7d in 2010, and that became one of the first indie feature shot with a dslr to gather real buzz, prizes, and massive end result. (deal with hbo, anyone? )
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in 2010, i wrote and recorded the score for lena dunham’s feature tiny furniture. this release is the entire score, plus many other pieces i wrote for the film that didn’t make the cut, including my cover of sinead o’connor’s “emperor’s new clothes, ” which was originally supposed to be the song over the end titles (we couldn’t afford the rights), and “when you come home, ” my duet with rebecca schiffman that ended up being at the end instead .
a washington nature enthusiast dreams of a simpler life in the great outdoors and decides to downsize to a 240 - square - foot tiny home. tyson and the team work to maximize floor space while michelle brings the outdoors inside by adding natural accents .
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a couple in agoura hills, california, wants to expand their property with a tiny home for their two children. the team has their work cut out for them as they incorporate zen living into a multi - functional space that both siblings will love .
mark left school to found his own startup with a few friends: a web - hosting company called internet presence and publishing which they later changed to itribe. their seed money came from a co - founder' s father, and the little bit of cash was used to pay for
a tiny office, crappy furniture, and an internet connection .
but with a child on the way, mark left the struggling startup to join a company where he could make some real money .
boston - based start - up ori is out to solve those problems with a system that combines robotics and apartment - friendly modular furniture to transform small spaces in seconds. think of it as a kind of retractable murphy bed on steroids .
lena dunham won the narrative feature prize at sxsw in 2010 for her film tiny furniture, which had a budget of $ 65, 000. accessibility was the name of the game for dunham. since she didn' t have much to work with in terms of funds, she cast her real life mom and sister as her mom and sister in the film, shot on a canon 7d, and filmed in the apartment building she lived in with her parents in downtown manhattan. dunham says :
in march, the then 23 - year - old' s second feature film, tiny furniture, won the best narrative feature prize at the south by southwest film festival. the new york times, in a piece about dunham, compared her writing to both the novels of john cheever and the comedy of seinfeld creator larry david. and in september, hbo ordered a half - hour comedy pilot from durham, about a group of girls in their 20s. judd apatow jumped onboard to produce .
we are trying to show you that your home can almost become an app ,
larrea said .
that is the idea — how to make spaces not only more functional but also intelligent. i call it furniture with superpowers .
after a devastating wildfire in cobb mountain, california, scott and tamsen were forced away from their home of 25 years. with the help of tiny heirloom, the couple dreams of a sleek and modern tiny home they can make new memories in. tyson and the guys get to work building a book nook for tamsen and a guest loft space for their sons while remaining pet - friendly for their little dog. michelle and the girls bring the couple' s tastes to life with ultra - modern and mountain - inspired design pieces .
mario, autumn and their four children give tiny heirloom a big challenge for their dream vacation tiny home. with just 220 - square - feet of living space, this family needs to have enough room to sleep all six, while still having a place for luxury items such as a decorative fireplace and large bathroom with two sinks. tyson and the guys maximize space with two sleeping lofts and a downstairs bedroom with bunk beds, while michelle and the design team bring mario and autumn' s rustic and log cabin tastes to life .
“ tiny furniture ” boasts a first - rate supporting cast — karpovsky and kirke are standouts — and nimble hd lensing by jody lee lipes. (the title, by the way, refers to props used by aura’s mom in her photo art .) what it doesn’t have, to its credit, is a neat conclusion. in the end, the film appears to suggest that aura likely will feel free to keep searching for herself, repeating mistakes and making new ones, because she has all the time in the world .
only a few months ago, lena dunham was all but unknown. then her movie tiny furniture —a funny, edgy, startlingly assured feature that cost only $ 50, 000—won the narrative feature jury award at the sxsw film festival in austin, texas. today, the 24 - year - old writer - director - actress is the indie it girl. she’s the subject of magazine profiles, has been hired to write a script by überproducer scott rudin, and is developing an hbo comedy series with judd apatow about young women in new york .
if this sounds insufferable, like the template of so many navel gazing indies made by the same cohort of overeducated 20 - somethings, well… yes and no. superficially, tiny furniture plays out like a distaff version of the loosely grouped “mumblecore” (sorry, i hate it too, but no other term works) movement spearhead by andrew bujalski (whom dunham, in interviews, acknowledges as an obvious influence) and mostly made up of male directors and male protagonists. but the gender switch isn’t what (or just) sets dunham’s film apart .
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although the movie came together in a matter of months, it looks anything but thrown together, partly because jody lee lipes, the director of photography, who has his own film here called “ny export: opus jazz, ” did not let the lack of financing show up on screen. and while ms. dunham’s film may reflect the quandaries of a 23 - year - old, there is nothing juvenile about its execution. “tiny furniture” brings to mind larry david’s ability to take his own tics and add humor and stakes to make them matter to others .
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how autobiographical is tiny furniture? well, dunham did return home after graduating from oberlin college, where she majored in creative writing and created popular webisodes (delusional downtown divas). she was working odd jobs as a clothing store clerk, secretary and babysitter until six months ago, and still lives with her parents. “i was not equipped for any other sort of job, ” she says. the male characters are composites who have “real aspects, like many men i’ve known. i blend reality and fiction in everything i write. this is a little less blurred. ”
ori is a new line of furniture that its founder, hasier larrea, describes as robotic, intelligent, and dynamic. that' s not how you usually talk about tables and shelves. but then again, most tables and shelves don' t come from the mit media lab .
though it' s paced like a comedy (sometimes too much so, when dunham ends a scene on a punch line, ba - dum - bum), tiny furniture has a way of suddenly delivering moments of unexpected emotional power. one whole scene consists of a long static shot of aura sobbing and berating her mother—
did you ever have a job that wasn' t taking pictures of stupid tiny crap ?
—while her teenage sister snickers. the character of the mother, though, remains unsatisfyingly opaque. she does seem a chilly sort, but nothing she says or does to her daughter is objectively that unreasonable. siri' s apparent shortcomings as a mother may spring from laurie simmons' shortcomings as an actor; her line readings sound stiff and unintuitive. (or is her own director / daughter telling her to speak that way? the meta - self - referential plot thickens. )
winner of the narrative feature prize at the sxsw film festival, “ tiny furniture ” should strike a responsive chord in anyone who remembers — or is experiencing — that post - college period in life when you’re impatiently eager to invent yourself, yet hesitant to get started. written and directed by newcomer lena dunham, who also plays the lead role, this technically polished indie often feels like a semi - autographical effort by a filmmaker trying to work out issues in her art that she’s still confronting in life. but that, too, may help the pic connect with auds during limited theatrical exposure .
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pitched unsteadily if shrewdly between honest self - reflection and squirmy narcissistic indulgence, the low - budget indie “tiny furniture” is one of the bigger itsy - bitsy movies to hit this year. it was written and directed by the newcomer lena dunham, who also plays the leading role of aura, a recent college graduate who returns to her family’s tribeca loft and promptly tries to crawl back in the womb. what makes this womb without apparent view especially notable is that ms. dunham’s own mother, the artist laurie simmons, plays aura’s mother, while her real sister, grace, plays aura’s on - screen sibling.
tiny furniture is a 2010 american independent comedy-drama film written , directed by , and starring lena dunham . the film premiered at south by southwest , where it won the award for best narrative feature , screened at such festivals as maryland film festival , and was released theatrically in the united states on november 12 , 2010 . dunham ’s own mother , the artist laurie simmons , plays aura ’s mother , while her real sister , grace , plays aura ’s on-screen sibling . the actors jemima kirke and alex karpovsky would also appear in dunham 's television series girls . 
tiny furniture is a 2010 american independent comedy-drama film written, directed by, and starring lena dunham. the film premiered at south by southwest, where it won the award for best narrative feature, screened at such festivals as maryland film festival, and was released theatrically in the united states on november 12, 2010. dunham ’s own mother, the artist laurie simmons, plays aura ’s mother, while her real sister, grace, plays aura ’s on-screen sibling. the actors jemima kirke and alex karpovsky would also appear in dunham's television series girls.
tiny furniture is a 2010 american independent comedy-drama film written, directed by, and starring lena dunham. the film premiered at south by southwest, where it won the award for best narrative feature, screened at such festivals as maryland film festival, and was released theatrically in the united states on november 12, 2010. dunham ’s own mother, the artist laurie simmons, plays aura ’s mother, while her real sister, grace, plays aura ’s on-screen sibling. the actors jemima kirke and alex karpovsky would also appear in dunham's television series girls.