Ian Bloom wrote Star Vehicle at age 32, three days after returning to Hollywood from Zurich, Milan, Paris, London, and New York. High fashion sharpened - Rick Owens ballistic, Helmut Lang cool, and Martin Margiela final-form - Bloom returned to America - eagle-landed and drilled to the core. Written on impulse. Self-greenlit. Before the studios could name it. Then he made the film himself. One-man production. Dual-role performance.

Painted title cards. Original end-credit song. Total authorship. Singular direction. Star Vehicle is Bloom's debut feature film - a full-frontal monologue in motion - a minimalist cinema with maximal consequence. The dialogue is a knife fight: Glengarry Glen Ross crossed with The American Friend - hyper-aware, utterly unbothered, prophecy's gun in hand. This is the American screenplay: commerce, culture, cinema, cosmology - collapsed into one vehicle. Brand as destiny.

Myth as operating system. Hollywood as a balance sheet with a soul. Welcome to the Canon. This is Star Vehicle.