bark

American filmmaker Amanda Kramer’s feature-length directorial debut Ladyworld is a masterclass in how to do a lot with a little. Proudly lo-fi and not afraid of showing it, the premise of the film is at first deceptively simple. A group of eight teenage girls are unexpectedly trapped in a house after a sudden earthquake. Highly theatrical in nature, as the girls face the reality of their situation their psyches begin to fray in different ways, ultimately factionalizing into two groups defined by what they imagine (or do they?) is the presence of a man in the house, who embodies physical threat to many of them more than the reality of their situation.