Alex Anna is a filmmaker and script supervisor in love with cinematographic language and words. As a queer and feminist filmmaker, they signed their first short film The Fruit of Our Womb in 2017 (as Laurie Mannessier) and Scars, in 2020. They uses art to deal with forbidden subjects and as a means to fight for a better world.
How can you continue to create when you can barely feed yourself? Alex Anna presents their film _Scars_ at a sunlit festival, but behind their apparent success hides a ceaseless fight with their own mind. Expressing the brutality of loneliness through a poetic act of cinematography, _Create; survive_ confronts our virtual and public identities against the intimate reality of depression.
How can you continue to create when you can barely feed yourself? Alex Anna presents their film _Scars_ at a sunlit festival, but behind their apparent success hides a ceaseless fight with their own mind. Expressing the brutality of loneliness through a poetic act of cinematography, _Create; survive_ confronts our virtual and public identities against the intimate reality of depression.