Lena Dunham’s YouTube Beginnings

Short Takes—

Apr 14, 2012

Before her critically acclaimed new HBO series Girls (premiering this weekend), before her breakthrough feature Tiny Furniture, writer-director-actor Lena Dunham had already made a name for herself posting short films on YouTube. Check out one of them, 2006’s Pressure, here. It’s just four minutes long, but in this distinctly Dunham-esque, firmly female-centric bit of confessional comedy, it’s clear that, though she was only nineteen, she had already found her voice.

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