![]() ![]() The wolf mask was a very prominent symbol throughout the film. Their music is so unique and unlike anything else in Columbus, and that’s the energy we wanted to bring to the film. Beyond that, I think her and Z Wolf of Damn the Witch Siren feel like they should be movie characters - they’re such eccentric, interesting people with the wolf mask. She was so charismatic and amazing to work with. We had worked with her on a music video we did years before working on Poser and really enjoyed it. We wanted to make a film with friends and people that we knew we’d be able to work well with. What was it about Bobbi that made her the focus of the film? When writing the script for Poser, Bobbi Kitten of Damn the Witch Siren was the first real-life musician that was written into the script. Ori lived on the North side by Ace of Cups and I lived near German Village so we’d go to the MINT gallery there. Noah: As soon as Ori and I moved to Columbus, we met a bunch of friends so we’d be going to shows. It was only around for a couple years, but it felt like a very formative time for us as artists. It felt like it was a really special place. Ori: Our friends would have concerts at night and performance art during the day. Noah: It used to be by the Buckeye Donuts on South High Street. ![]() We’ve been to many shows at Ace of Cups and Spacebar, but I think one of the big inspirations for the movie was this gallery called MINT Collective. Can you both describe some impactful concerts or events that you attended in that area of town? I’m from Columbus, so seeing Old North on the big screen was resonating it felt interactive and I was able to recognize the neighborhood instantly. As soon as I pitched that, our old team was like “Hell yeah, let’s do it.” We were all excited. We had met so many incredible, talented musicians over the years and worked on so many great music videos and thought it would be fun to create a narrative based around these real bands and musicians that we work with. When it came time to decide what our feature would be, I pitched our team on doing a film based on the Columbus music scene. We’ve basically spent years practicing - working on music videos and short films and commercial work all to one day make our feature. We went to school together and that’s always been a shared goal of ours and our producers. Noah: It’s something that we both dreamt of doing for many years. Both seated in different rooms during the interview, the two remain collaborative as friends and co-captains guiding the helm of their inaugural film.Īfter years of directing music videos through Loose Films, what led you both to making a full-length feature? Segev and Dixon spoke with SPIN about Poser over video chat from their new Loose Films digs in Columbus. The film even boasts a limited-edition vinyl soundtrack (it’s pink!) with Ohio artists WYD and Joey Aich, along with Poser stars Damn the Witch Siren and Sylvie Mix encapsulating Columbus’ indie soundscapes. Initially premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2021, Poser was released to select theaters in June of this year to long-overdue national praise. The two women bond over their love of music, visual and performance art and, of course, Columbus, nearly becoming shadows of each other as Gates idealizes Kitten’s punkcore edge. Upon meeting Bobbi Kitten, frontwoman of real-life duo Damn the Witch Siren, Gates becomes immersed in Kitten’s allure, an obsession that veers into a dark turn. Segev and Dixon’s artsy film follows Lennon Gates, a young woman who finds herself fascinated with Columbus music, awkwardly establishing relationships with local artists as a nascent podcaster. Absorbing hole-in-the-wall music venues and a myriad of genres from folk to rap, the two cozied up to local musicians as budding filmmakers, quietly planning to give the underground music scene in the aptly named Discovery City its mainstream debut. In 2014, when both were 22 years old and new graduates of Denison University - a liberal arts college 30 minutes east of Columbus, Ohio - Segev and Dixon took to Columbus to relish in the city’s arts culture. Poser was the film that Loose Films founder Ori Segev and creative director Noah Dixon always wanted to make. ![]()
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