Bird Girl

Rebekah Hunnicutt, a reclusive painter now living in Western Massachusetts is unexpectedly thrust into the art-world spotlight when a popular podcast identifies her as the young woman behind a decades-old art-world incident. In the 1970s, at the height of the Soho art scene, she was entangled with an ambitious artist who used her four-foot-long braid as material for his work. The podcast's retelling of that episode turns her into a reluctant cause célébre, drawing curious visitors to the once-secret studio where she has quietly reworked the same seven canvases for forty years. Now she must decide whether to remain in the shadows or finally re-enter the New York art world, armed with the artwork that has consumed her life. What unfolds lays bare the artistic power dynamics that shaped her youth and the ways a woman's image can be celebrated as muse only to be erased as an artist.