Portrait of Kaye
Kaye has spent the majority of her life within the four walls of her parents' house, confined by her lifelong agoraphobia. She finds solace in the faces and lives of old movie stars that she pastes their images alongside those of her deceased family on the walls of her house, creating a kaleidoscopic collage that combines personal history with Hollywood fantasy. Portrait of Kaye is a bittersweet portrait of a woman forming her own unique identity while navigating the conflicting influences of her mother's bawdy humour and her father's anxieties. Her infatuation with a younger neighbor, now 74 and recently widowed, allows her to explore personal and sexual freedoms she has always kept hidden. Ben Reed, a former next-door neighbor and music video director, has assembled a unique and touching meditation on family, film, and the meaning of freedom.