“It is as if she doesn’t hear the same music that everyone else is hearing,” says director Andrew Michael Ellis of 86-year-old interior designer Eleanor Ambos, the subject of today’s excerpt of Eleanor Ambos Interiors. Captured by Ellis under the umbrella of Brooklyn's Nomadique collective, the documentary short was an official selection at this year’s South by Southwest film festival, and follows the eccentric aesthete as she loses her eyesight to macular degeneration. Known for her expansive New York real estate, the interiors arbiter bought the dilapidated Metropolitan Building on Long Island in 1980 as a cheap alternative to the area's warehouses to store her vast and growing collection of salvaged antiques. The building has been significantly restored by Ambos over the years, and its octogenarian owner caught Ellis’ eye while he was shooting there. “She was sprawled on a chaise lounge, this fascinating, charming woman who just drew me in,” says the filmmaker. “She had no intention of being a subject in a film at first, but eventually I became her friend, therapist, practically her lover. It was impossible to be a fly on the wall.”