In Process is a non-linear film by NYC-based directors Julie Kupiec and Nina Gofur. Film shows a snippet of life of Liv, a 23-year-old, NYC-based fashion designer as she explores the intersection between her creative process and her ongoing relationship with self-questioning and self-invention.

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Liv creates garments from old, often stained, deemed useless pieces of fabric. Stitching them together she creates something new out of discarded, imperfect things. In a heap on the floor, it doesn’t look like these base elements go together. They’re contradictory - a mish mash of different patterns, time periods, styles and materials. And yet, she takes a needle and a thread and she binds them together. What she creates is a new piece which seems to find its value in this depth of texture, in its contradictory elements, in the disproven assumption that “this shouldn’t work” and then, somehow against expectation, it does. Liv likewise is at a stage in her life when she’s piecing things together. We call these years the “formative” ones - that period when we’re more potential than actual. Our identities aren’t fully baked - they’re in process, currently being figured and stitched from a heap of attempts and ideas and desires strewn across the floor.

We were struck by the idea of making a project for Liv one night at her apartment. A handful of girlfriends had come over to do a clothing swap. It’s the kind of night I think of when I think of Liv and it looked the way you’d imagine: a dream collaged out of a Sophia Coppola movie - all pastels and lace, dancing on mountains of clothes, loud music, shared confessions, teeth stained with red wine. It’s the kind of night we'll look back on and feel is inseparable from the experience of our early 20’s - that time when your girlfriends are your most reliable compasses, the mirrors you hold up to yourself to find out who you are and who you’d like to be. At its core, this project is a portrait of that time between youth and the rest of our lives. It’s about feeling that you've left where you’ve come from and haven’t figured out yet where you're going.

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Kupiec and Gofur say: 'We made this project because we wanted to try to immortalize a period in our lives that we knew was special and fleeting. There's nothing quite like girlhood in your early twenties. It's a disaster. It's a party. It's ripping your dress at the club and then googling how to get out of your credit card debt. It's the closest you'll ever be to your girlfriends. We wanted to celebrate this age precisely because we felt ourselves so badly wanting to be older, to be wiser, to be more complete versions of ourselves - and at the same time suspecting that once we were, we'd wish so badly that we could go back.'