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Articles " A painstakingly crafted first feature by Azazel Jacobs (son of experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs), "Nobody Needs to Know" hits the highs and lows of indie aesthetic. At its best in its piercing images of New York streets and in Tricia Vessey's poignant eccentricity, pic spins its wheels trying to reinvent narrative via numbing repetition. Fests and other indie showcases should pick up on the good parts of this prose video poem, which shows a sensibility out of the ordinary. Story strands are woven together by the disturbing voice of a young rapper, through whose eye we see New York. An indie filmmaker holds auditions to cast the female lead of his next picture. Each actress is required to perform an unprepared death scene. At first their awkwardness is funny, then their repeated humiliations become a stale gag. One of the thesps, Iris (Vessey), just walks away, and the pompous director becomes obsessed with finding her again. But she has decided to give up acting for intensely felt but never articulated reasons and slides into breakdown. Daniel Andrade's spare monochrome lensing and Victor Axelrod's sometimes abstract score give the film class." - Deborah Young, Variety, March 2003 | News
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