MANSPREAD SHORT FILM

Directing a “film” was not what I set out to do in making this. I wanted to tell a story, but rather than telling I wanted to show. I wanted to show what it looks like for women who move through the world being told they are too much, too loud, too big, too opinionated. I wanted to show how that manifests even in the smallest moments in life. women are told from such a young age that they need to learn how to make themselves smaller and it permeates every part of life. Our commute to work, how we sit, how we dress, where we stand, when we smile, where we walk… it’s everywhere. men are not taught these things. They take space whenever and wherever they want, because they’ve been told that they can. Not only that they can, but the space is theirs to take. and so we all continue to move through life, squeezing into the space that’s leftover. I made this in hopes that people would see it and think twice about how they move through the world. to be clear, the world I created for this film is not a better world, or a world I wish to live in - it is a mirror - it is the world we live in now, just the other way around. I hope that in seeing how absurd this world looks, men become more conscious and champion the women around them to be bigger and bolder and women take the space that they deserve just as much as the men around them. I hope to start conversations. That’s all.
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