Annalise Lockhart
Directing
Known For

A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.
The Assistant

While training at the gym, 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in, she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent fits.
The Fits

Is horror a man’s world? You might assume so – but you won’t be thinking that way for long once you investigate the vast contribution women have made to horror movies for well over a century. In 2020, award-winning Australian critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas released the definitive book on the subject: 1000 Women in Horror, 1895–2018, an encyclopaedic work celebrating the many women – filmmakers, actors, producers and technicians – who have shaped the genre since the moment cinema’s light first flickered.
1000 Women in Horror

What do a young graffiti artist, a middle-aged widow, a teenage poet, a vampire, and two lovers stuck in separate timelines have in common? Though their paths don't always cross, their lives unfold in Brooklyn's vibrantly multicultural neighborhood of Bushwick, which becomes a distinctive character that ties together these six diverse stories about the power of unconditional love.
Brooklyn Love Stories

A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.
Chained for Life

A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?
Collective: Unconscious

The staff of a black hair salon fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.
Hair Wolf

Set in the year 2043, Mirasol lives a monotonous and lonely existence on a secluded farm. One day out gardening, a discovery opens the door to imagining a future where life returns.
Mirasol

Secondary maps two different narratives onto each other, using movement as the formal through-line. The first describes the complex overlay of violence and spectacle inherent in American football, and more broadly within American culture. Barney’s personal involvement in the sport served as a starting point for the development of this project. The extreme physical and psychological conditions of the game have been abstracted in Barney’s art practice since his earliest work, and now provide a context for this subject that is both retrospective and a new, direct engagement.
Secondary
Reporter Jena Friedman finds an unexpected way to educate men about campus rape. Later, a cop's online cannibal fetish ruined his life, but can Jena salvage his love life?
Soft Focus with Jena Friedman

In Josh Kline’s three-channel film, Another America is Possible, the sculptor and video artist provides a ritualized glimpse at utopia.
Another America is Possible

A dystopian tale, shot in magisterial black and white, about a world that’s variously tortured and enlivened by sound.
Black Soil, Green Grass

Missed connection regret at that one late-night spot—the kind you keep playing back in your head but not quite ever remembering right, until it starts to look like something else.
Guisado on Sunset

A Black family in rural Vermont attempts to live a life of solitude and cope with the ghosts living on their property.