“I have never seen the problem with fetishizing objects and fetishizing people as though they were objects,” director Amanda Kramer tells me in a conversation ahead of the release of her latest film, ...

On its surface, her latest film, By Design — a subversive twist on the body swap genre starring Juliette Lewis as a woman who turns into a beautiful chair — seems a little... out there. "You have an ...

Logline: A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair. Writer-director Amanda Kramer brilliantly collages tropes of literature, cinema, and performance art to cleverly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Filmmaker Amanda Kramer melded a number of different art forms in her new feature "By Design," but her tallest order was turning ...

"Have you heard of this movie where Juliette Lewis plays a chair?" "Yes, of course, but remind me about the chair part?" Music Box has debuted their trailer for a kooky indie comedy called By Design, ...

Amanda Kramer is a writer/director whose films have shown at festivals around the world. Her feature Ladyworld played at TIFF Next Wave, London BFI and Fantastic Fest, and plays in select theaters ...

Filmmaker Amanda Kramer melded a number of different art forms in her new feature “By Design,” but her tallest order was turning Juliette Lewis into a chair. “I think of it as it’s a body swap movie,” ...