Publisher's Synopsis
During the lockdown in 2020, trapped in her house, movie work at a halt, Ana Lily Amirpour began to excavate her iPhone. Aside from the thousands of photos and videos and screen grabs, she had also written hundreds of 'notes' to herself, personal things like dreams that she would quickly write down in the middle of the night before they'd evaporate, and then analyze their meaning the next day. Some notes were about films she was working on, story ideas, character ideas, thoughts for actors, or production. Some were intimate and personal, like venting the frustrations of an argument with a boyfriend, or venting about a film experience, or agonizing about the death of someone close. Tons of other notes were just weird, random things: thoughts, quotes, movie recommendations, books, grocery lists. She had email threads with herself digging into unresolved questions and answers about filmmaking-questions about why she made a film or what it means; questions that are always difficult to ans
