When the musical meta-documentary/comedy/thriller "The Nowhere Inn" came out in 2020, a close-knit friendship became public. Annie Clark (stage name St. Vincent) has been best friends with rock star/"Portlandia" star Carrie Brownstein for quite some time, as per Texas Monthly. They met in 2006, when Brownstein performed with her rock trio Sleater-Kinney, and Clark performed with Polyphonic Spree at the SXSW festival in Texas.
In 2020, the two friends decided to make a film disguised as a documentary, in which Brownstein plays a director who is making a documentary about St. Vincent. Clark plays both herself and St. Vincent, her rock star persona, and Brownstein plays the director even though she did not direct the movie (Bill Benz did). As Clark herself told Nylon, the movie is a meta-meditation on life and the authenticity of art but also on friendship, with Clark and Brownstein at the center.
While their friendship is slightly fictionalized for the sake of creativity and humor, the fact that they're BFFs remains unchanged, as the Annie Clark character states in the mockumentary, "I wanted people to know who I really am. I wanted it to be intimate and revealing –- I asked my best friend to direct it."
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