Still from By Design (2025), by Amanda Kramer.
Still from By Design (2025), by Amanda Kramer.
By Design
Directed by Amanda Kramer (USA, 2025, 92 min.).
Upon seeing a gorgeous chair in a showroom, Camille (Juliette Lewis of Yellowjackets and Natural Born Killers) realizes that she truly envies the life of this perfect piece of furniture. If only she could be someone’s favorite thing. When she and the chair swap forms, Camille learns that she is better liked as an inanimate object than she was as a person: her mother (Betty Buckley) finds her to be a better listener, and her best friends (Samantha Mathis and Robin Tunney) enjoy a newfound, friction-free rapport. As the chair, Camille is unable to speak or move and winds up in the hands of Olivier (Mamoudou Athie), a minimalist bachelor who gradually becomes romantically fixated on his elegant new possession. Narrated by Melanie Griffith, this modern fable celebrates the messiness of female interiority with deadpan humor, surrealist flourishes, and interpretative dance numbers. By Design, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, is an absurdist spin on the body-swap comedy from singular filmmaker Amanda Kramer.
Wheelchair accessible
With English subtitles
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