Contents under Pressure

An anxious young party-goer finds love at a party, but after committing a party faux pas, is destroyed in a washing machine accident. From here, the project pivots, self-conscious and needing to recast its hero, who quickly has an existential crisis (“what’s my motivation?”). A poetic, quirky, singular meditation on identity and personal history, populated with the beautiful vistas of Atlantic Canada.

Film Maker
Dugdale, Benjamin
Year
2021
Country
Canada
Length
96
Language
English
Category
Abstraction, Absurdity, Canada, Childhood, Community, gay, Gender, Identity, LGBTQ, Literature, Memory, Mental Health, Mortality, music, Poetry, sexuality, Trans*
Genre
experimental, feature, hand-processed, narrative, queer

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