Nicole Brending
Nicole Brending
Sydney Bonar, Aneikit Bonnel, Nicole Brending
In this satirical look at the machinery of celebrity, Dollhouse chronicles the triumph and train-wrecks of fictional child pop star Junie Spoons. Did we mention everyone is a puppet?
A puppet adult animation told a la VH1’s Behind the Music, Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity from American Popular Culture charts the rise and fall of Junie’s career as her life is splashed all over the media and recounted by those who claim to know her — a greedy record producer, a narcissistic mother, an opportunistic friend, ex-boyfriends and the like – until she is inevitably eliminated from her own story. The debut feature film of writer/director Nicole Brending will have you in painful laughter as the film blatantly ignores political correctness in a bold, no-holds-barred look at the insidious mechanisms governing misogyny in America. With hand-made puppets and original pop songs, Dollhouse will have you (guiltily) singing along to Junie’s tragically true tale.
MAJOR FESTIVAL WINNER / SPECTACULAR REVIEWS
2020