FILM

Film

ABBY SINGER/ SONGWRITER

ABBY SINGER/SONGWRITER

Written and directed by Onur Tukel 

In ABBY SINGER/SONGWRITER, Jamie Block—a divorced stockbroker has-been who was once an indie-rock star signed to Capitol Records —meets Onur Tukel, a hapless middle-aged filmmaker who has just moved to Brooklyn. In this coming-of-middle-age story, Onur persuades Block to sink his money into a series of increasingly absurd music videos to promote his comeback as a musician. ABBY SINGER/SONGWRITER blends documentary and narrative with the lost art of the music video to tell the story of a comeback, a crack-up and a breakthrough.

ABBY SINGER/SONGWRITER

Written and directed by Onur Tukel 

In ABBY SINGER/SONGWRITER, Jamie Block—a divorced stockbroker has-been who was once an indie-rock star signed to Capitol Records —meets Onur Tukel, a hapless middle-aged filmmaker who has just moved to Brooklyn. In this coming-of-middle-age story, Onur persuades Block to sink his money into a series of increasingly absurd music videos to promote his comeback as a musician. ABBY SINGER/SONGWRITER blends documentary and narrative with the lost art of the music video to tell the story of a comeback, a crack-up and a breakthrough.
Written and directed by Onur Tukel 

In ABBY SINGER/SONGWRITER, Jamie Block—a divorced stockbroker has-been who was once an indie-rock star signed to Capitol Records—meets Onur Tukel, a hapless middle-aged filmmaker who has just moved to Brooklyn. 

In this coming-of-middle-age story, Onur persuades Block to sink his money into a series of increasingly absurd music videos to promote his comeback as a musician. 

ABBY SINGER/SONGWRITER blends documentary and narrative with the lost art of the music video to tell the story of a comeback, a crack-up and a breakthrough.

Reviews

Onur Tukel’s New One Is a "No-Budget, Poor Man’s’ Birdman"
- Bedford + Bowery

Tukel weaved together clips from the videos, behind-the-scenes footage, and fresh, scripted material into a fictional narrative about the making of the music videos. “We made this movie backwards,” is how Block put it. “It’s very experimental and very strange,” Tukel said of the film. “Not to compare it to Birdman, but when Birdman came out I kind of felt like, ‘Oh, wow, we’ve got a no-budget, poor man’s version.” MORE...

- amNEWYORK.com

“This is a self-referential, surrealist work in which Tukel plays a version of himself, working with a stockbroker trying to rekindle a long-dormant singing career. That description probably doesn't do the film justice." MORE...


"Abby Singer/Songwriter,” from the New York filmmaker Onur Tukel, about an ex-rock-star stockbroker who partners with a filmmaker to make music videos." MORE...



Rent or Buy

Share by: