Youth Erosion

The beginning of the pandemic transformed how everyone felt distance, isolation, and the world around us. It also allowed for personal feelings to move into a new foreground and it became important for me to explore two feelings of isolation through the process of making my first narrative film: struggling to have a relationship with my gender nonconforming body, and being alone during a pandemic. The film opens on the main character who is struggling to break out of a depressive episode. Friends feel distant but the world creates opportunities for reflection and change. Formally the film plays with montage, cross fades, and other disruptions that frame the story with a weirdness that only amplifies the personal rabbit holes that are easy to slip into in solitude. I want to continue to make work that is deeply personal, breaks social norms, and imitates real life experiences through challenging the conventional tools and structures of narrative.