#POSER DEBUT REVIEW MOVIE#
“We just wanted to make a movie that we were proud of,” said Segev.
The filmmakers are elated at the response they’ve received from Tribeca, describing it as the pinnacle of their work so far. “It’s like, ‘Here are my feelings and thoughts, people should care about it!’ You can’t take yourself too seriously, but it can be really funny when people do.” “Being an artist, in general, is such a silly thing,” she said with a laugh. It’s a sentiment that Bobbi echoes herself. “We’re more poking fun at what it means to try and describe yourself as an artist. “And we’re not so much poking fun at the bands,” Segev clarified. “But also kind of poking fun at it, and making fun of - in a nice way - some of the things we’d experienced over the years.” “From the beginning, we knew that we wanted to go into this as both a love letter to these bands and our friends,” said Dixon. Poser may be a dark story, but Segev and Dixon recognized an opportunity to mine humor from the inherent absurdity of the music world. To have someone else’s artistic vision creating another world with our band in it was just really awe-inspiring.” “And I couldn’t be more proud the outcome. “Ori said they had this idea for a movie, and would I be interested in having our band in it? I had no idea of the scope, but I said ‘sure!'” She returned from touring to find a script waiting for her, and an offer to audition for a leading role.īobbi admits to having a bit of apprehension about whether she was up to the challenge, and whether her band would be well-represented, but those fears vanished early in the process. “Noah pretty much wrote the role for her.”īobbi remembered the first time she was approached about being involved in the film. “As soon as we worked with Bobbi the first time, we just all vibed so well together and had such a good time,” recalled Segev. She had previously appeared in a music video Loose Films directed for another local act, and became fast friends with the filmmakers. Chief among them is Bobbi Kitten, lead singer of Damn the Witch Siren, who plays an exaggerated version of herself in the film. In addition to real-life locations, Poser also features a number of Columbus musicians, drawn primarily from close friends and people with whom the duo had previously worked. “A lot of shows that we’ve filmed were in a basement, and some of that footage is actually in the movie in various places. “We wanted to make something that we knew really well, and that we had access to the places we wanted to shoot,” said Segev. They leveraged that experience, and many of those relationships, to craft their first feature, shooting on location in the same venues they’d frequented over the past few years. The duo serve as creative directors for Loose Films, a production house from Columbus that put itself on the map producing music videos for many of the city’s local music acts. “I was thinking we’d do a small premiere in Ohio, so to be doing it at Tribeca with so many people watching it, that’s just been incredible.” “It’s definitely well beyond what I expected,” said Dixon, speaking to us via Zoom a few days after the film’s debut screening. But Poser, which follows a young woman infiltrating the underground Columbus music scene under false pretenses and forming an unhealthy attachment to one of its major figures, not only premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, it was warmly received by critics and audiences alike. When Columbus, Ohio-based filmmakers Ori Segev and Noah Dixon set out to make their first feature, they never expected it to screen at a major film festival.
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