COVER ME

A young musician tries to find her place in New Orleans, city of musical dreams and failures. Unfortunately, despite chance encounters she has trouble making inroads. As a recent arrival, she struggles with loneliness, and her propitious entrance on the scene proves much more elusive than she ever imagined. Director Garrett Bradley made waves at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival with the screening of her first feature, Below Dreams (the film also screened at the FNC last year). Bradley comes back strong, this time presenting a hybrid work made jointly with multidisciplinary artist Tameka Norris, who also plays the lead. Relying freely for her images on a video installation put together by Norris in which the vocalist filmed herself in various situations, Bradley delves into the creative artist’s plight in a chronicle that joins the annals of recent American independent film. Hovering between fiction and reality, the intriguing Cover Me, selected for the latest edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, plunges into the world of a vulnerable, unstable character trying to remake herself before our eyes.