Lick the Star

Lick the Star is a 14-minute-long black and white 16mm short film, and the first film written and directed by Sofia Coppola. 
The film is included as a bonus feature on the DVD for the film "HOP" from Film Movement. It was also included as a bonus feature on the 2018 Criterion Collection release of "The Virgin Suicides".
Plot.
Kate has been absent from seventh grade for a week due to a broken foot. She frets about returning, as she knows how quickly things can change during junior high and wonders what she has missed. Upon arriving, she learns her clique of friends, led by queen bee Chloe, have developed a catchphrase: "lick the star." The phrase holds mysterious significance to the group, but Kate's absence left her out of the loop, just as she feared.
That afternoon, Chloe and the others reveal to Kate that "lick the star" is "kill the rats" backwards, the code for their plan to weaken the boys at their school by poisoning them with arsenic, inspired by Chloe's obsession with the book "Flowers in the Attic". The girls shoplift rat poison and break into the targeted boys' lockers to contaminate their food, then hide behind the bleachers for secret "lick the star" meetings. During one such meeting, Kate is caught by a teacher while holding Chloe's cigarette, leading to Kate being suspended and another extended absence from school.
While Kate is gone, Chloe learns about slavery in history class. On the bus after school, she expresses astonishment that even her black friend Nadine would have been enslaved. A case of broken telephone distorts the chance remark until the entire school believes that Chloe is racist. In despair, Chloe attempts suicide, but her failed effort only provides more gossip for her classmates. Returning to school after the suicide attempt, Chloe finds that her former friends have revealed the "lick the star" plot to the other students, leading to further ridicule.
Kate returns to school to discover that the entire social hierarchy has changed again: the once-powerful Chloe is now an outcast and the girls Chloe previously bullied no longer fear her. Kate watches from a distance as Chloe, sitting by herself, writes a short poem about how quickly things changes, but some things never do. Chloe tucks the poem into the book that appears to be her new obsession--"An American Biography" (the biography of model Edie Sedgwick) by Jean Stein--before she walks away alone.
Production.
Peter Bogdanovich appears in a cameo as the Principal. The director of photography was Lance Acord. Coppola's own eye appears in one dream-like shot.
The film's themes also appear in Coppola's later work, such as the feelings of isolation; in addition, the film begins with a car journey, just like her later films "The Virgin Suicides", "Lost in Translation", and "Somewhere".