The Art of Solipsism

FILMMAKER ZIA ANGER is all about herself. In her MUBI profile, she proclaims that her narrative films are “always self-driven, mostly self-funded, and totally self-motivated.” Though many emerging artists share this approach, Anger takes the ethos further, bringing an obsessive focus to the self across both personal and commercial projects. Even in her work directing music videos for artists such as Mitski and Angel Olsen, Anger maintains her solipsistic focus by continually engaging with her own artistic journey. Campy, highly choreographed, and often focused on a single female subject, Anger’s videos sometimes feel less like collaborative contributions to a wider cultural landscape than snapshots from an ongoing self-portrait.