You Won't Miss Me:Synopsis: A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable New York personalities, the film gives pathos to the frenzy of the youthful desire for acceptance. Shot in a variety of styles and formats, YOU WONT MISS ME mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging, order with abstraction, to paint an evocative picture of a contemporary rebel.
Born in 1981, Ry Russo-Young grew up in downtown Manhattan and made her first film while attending Saint Ann’s High School in collaboration with her childhood best friend. WIDE BERTH is a 16mm hand painted odyssey of friendship and landscape. When Russo-Young was twenty-two, she was profiled on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in the article “Growing Up With Mom and Mom.”
After graduating from Oberlin College in 2003, Russo-Young made the Super 8 short film, MARION. A three-screen deconstruction of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO, MARION screened at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and garnered several awards, including the Jury Award for Best Experimental Film at the 2006 SXSW Film Festival. MARION also screened at galleries and performance spaces and is now available through indiepix.net.
Ry Russo-Young’s feature film debut, ORPHANS, received a Special Jury Prize at the 2007 SXSW Film Festival and screened at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, among others. ORPHANS was released on DVD by Carnivalesque Films and is now available through Netflix and Amazon.
In 2007, Russo-Young appeared as Rocco in HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS, released by IFC Films. In addition, she worked on artist Doug Aitken’s large-scale film installation SLEEPWALKERS, which appeared on the exterior of the Museum of Modern Art in January, 2007.
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