Skinned - A Short Film

Skinned is a body-surrealism narrative short film. The film follows Jesse, a nonbinary twenty something, during a day on set as a photographer's assistant. Their paranoia about how they are being perceived by others spirals them into increasingly surreal experiences of their own dysphoria. As the nightmares escalate, Jesse finally faces a moment at which change and self embrace is less terrifying than staying put in their current reality.

Our film will utilize its genre and cinematography, a theater of gender performativity, surrealism, and theater of the grotesque to create an embodied experience of dysphoria.

Ultimately, this film is about liberation and embodiment - how we get there are what it feels like on the other side. It is about recognizing the feeling of joy and truth that guides us.

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