A low-budget fictional documentary starring the director as herself, searching archives and carrying out interviews to reconstruct the history of a black lesbian actress in the 1930s. This is intercut with romance-comedy scenes exploring the director's life as a video clerk including her friendship conflicts and development of a relationship with a white woman. While the performances and editing are quite awkward and obviously low-budget, the sense of authenticity and warmth exuding from the heart of the film carries it…

Aside from its tender exploration of friendship, Jewish womanhood and being a struggling artist in New York that reminded me quite strongly of Frances Ha, this film's refreshing approach to loneliness is its greatest strength. The ability to have time for oneself is a privilege that social pressures to act as a carer in both the home and professional life deny women in this context. Susan's loneliness is central to this film, juxtaposed to married Anne, yet it is not…