Love Bite
Laurie Lipton has spent five decades doing almost nothing but draw, by her own account more than anyone else alive. She never cooked, never had children, and structured her whole life around the pencil and paper in front of her. The film follows her at work and in conversation, tracing how a single-minded devotion to drawing shaped not just her output but the choices she made everywhere else, from relationships to daily routine. Her images, dense, monochrome, often macabre, appear throughout as the camera lingers on the process behind them: the hours of cross-hatching, the discipline of building a picture line by line rather than in broad strokes. The portrait that emerges is less about technique than about what a life looks like when one obsession is allowed to override every other priority. It is a character study of an artist who treats drawing as a full replacement for the things most people consider essential, and asks what gets produced, and what gets given up, when someone commits that completely.