One can understand why the offbeat and brilliant Juliette Lewis was chosen for the principal role in filmmaker Andrea Kramer’s bizarre but endearing offbeat movie, By Design. Lewis has always played ...

After studying theatre at Emerson College in Boston, Kramer relocated to Los Angeles, where she worked as a vintage clothing buyer, worked at an underground record label, and created house music. Her ...

In the simple yet sly opening shot of “By Design,” the latest film from writer-director Amanda Kramer, we begin not with a person, but a chair. Punctuated by inane chatter of the more human variety as ...

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,” ...

Written and directed by Amanda Kramer, By Designis dynamic. It asks us to ponder our existence through ignored and unloved characters. That is, above all else, what they desire throughout this unique ...

EXCLUSIVE: Music Box Films has picked up North American distribution rights to By Design, writer-director Amanda Kramer's surreal body-swap comedy that premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Only at the Sundance Film Festival could you see a body swap film not about a body swap, but rather, a person swapping lives with a chair. Writer-director Amanda Kramer delivers this level of genre ...

EXCLUSIVE: Juliette Lewis (Yellowjackets) and Mamoudou Athie (Kinds of Kindness) lead the cast of By Design, a new indie feature written and directed by Amanda Kramer (Please Baby Please), which has ...

Benjamin Shearn, who has edited all of Kramer’s feature films, joined her once again in the cutting room for By Design. Below, he explains how his close friendship with Kramer helps him retain the ...

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 ...

Films are made over many days, but some days are more memorable, and important, than others. Imagine yourself in ten years looking back on this production. What day from your film’s development, ...

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