“Tiny Furniture” is a feature length film by New York director Lena Durham that won the Jury Prize for “Best Narrative Feature” at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival.
23-year-old Dunham not only wrote, and directed the film, but also stars as the lead character Aura. Her mother is played by Dunham’s real mother, photographer Laurie Simmons, and Dunham’s sister Grace Dunham plays Nadine, Aura’s precocious sister. Beyond the peculiar fact that the majority of the principal cast is populated by members of her real family, what makes this film remarkable off the page is that it was shot entirely on a Canon EOS 7D HDSLR camera.
Here is the official trailer for the film:
Tiny Furniture went on to be a part of the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival program and was received with very positive reviews.
Despite the challenges of shooting motion picture with the odd form factor, this film is a beacon and a challenge to the rest of us that long format filmmaking can be done and can figure at the same level as any other capture method. Astonishing that it happened so quickly for such a relatively nascent method for shooting narrative film.
As an added bonus here is a direct link to the soundtrack to Tiny Furniture currently available as a free download.
For more information, visit the official site for Tiny Furniture
