Stellify

<p>In <em>Stellify</em> stories of love abuse and the film industry weave and intertwine in fragments like an Altman montage or Lydia Davis flash that coalesces into a Jennifer Egan-style interlinked narrative. An actor's breakdown instigated by an Elephant Man prosthetic leads to a love affair with a Syrian screenwriter. As a teenage actress wends a painful route toward a kind of stardom she connects with a British stuntman seeking a new life and a new self in Hollywood. Moments of tenderness disappointment and neglect form around a Korean film festival. As these and other pieces develop the storylines weave creating a novel in fragments and a constellation of the ways in which we love and hurt each other set against the abusive superstructure of the film industry.</p>