Ileana Pietrobruno (Directing)

watch movies: pietrobruno.wordpress.com Pietrobruno is the producer director writer editor of several short films and the following features: GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE (2008) released before Soderbergh version. "Challenges the audience's own desire for the real thing" (Zoë Druick, mediacommons.org https://mediacommons.org/imr/2009/03/31/mock-documentaries-canada-looking-real-thing). GIRL KING (2002) released before Kaurismäki version. “A crazed drag king pirate movie set on the shores of some tropicalized Vancouver, it’s jazzed and horny. Hilarious." (Cameron Bailey, Toronto International Film Festival). CAT SWALLOWS PARAKEET AND SPEAKS! (1996) “The mixed morbidity, fantasticism, and quirky humor work surprisingly well. Pietrobruno has a real eye, with handsomely composed imagery. Atmosphere is dreamlike, poetical, oddly sensuous” (Dennis Harvey, Variety Magazine https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/cat-swallows-parakeet-and-speaks-1117329667/). All of her films engage with representation and metaphor. "My overriding focus is on the cultural construction of subjectivity. Within this, I work toward a sensuous, layered experience of pleasure and spectacle where humour and theory collide." In Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks!, a modern Scheherazade refuses to...Read More