Written, directed and produced by Shannon Alexander (The Misguided, 2018), who evidently also shoots most of the footage not filmed by his subjects on their own smartphones, Sex, Love, Misery: New New York is a do-it-yourself documentary on dating. Alexander follows six people – Aisha Kerensa (who also composed and performed the score), Emile Filippi,…
From the jittery, juddery cuts and distorted sounds of its opening sequence, you can tell that in The Misguided, the feature debut of writer/director/producer/editor/DP Shannon Alexander, reality appears as something negotiable. It is night time in Perth, Australia, and feckless, sponging Levi (Caleb Galati) has arrived at the house of his older half-brother Wendel (Steven…