Filmmaker Statement

Personally, this film is an exploration of what my anxiety and OCD feels like. Invisible illnesses like anxiety, depression, and OCD, are so hard to properly explain to someone who’s never experienced it; so I wanted to explore it in a visual and tangible experience that I believe is what film, as an art form and storytelling tool, achieves best. I have never seen a realistic depiction of what my mental health issues feel like, especially health anxiety, and so my goal with this film was to show the rawest and most realistic portrayal of it that I could. Being able to present these inner demons that myself and many others battle every day, and make them digestible so that anyone could experience how debilitating and uncomfortable it is to go through, can maybe - hopefully - challenge the way we talk about these things. In a way, this film is a release of all the thoughts and feelings I’ve had and have struggled with. It has been therapeutic to let it all out.