Andrew Repasky McElhinney is the creator of feature films Magdalen (1998), A Chronicle of Corpses (2000), Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye (2003), Animal Husbandry (2009) and Christmas Dreams (2015). Shot in Philadelphia when he was 17 years old, McElhinney's debut feature, Magdalen is a gossipy meditation on art, drinking, smoking and screwing.