Filmmaker Statement

I received a notification. The Valentine's Day gift I ordered for my partner had just just arrived at my door. I brought the box inside and opened it, but what I purchased was not inside. Instead there were two used shin guards— stained, smelling foul— that I threw out of my hands. It sounds irrational, but by bringing this package I ordered into my home, I felt I had violated my own personal space. I kept thinking about who had done this. Why they would even do this. One day at work, Jamie Lee Curtis told me about a delivery scam her sister experienced… receiving walking sticks that she didn’t order but she still needed. It took me back to my fixation... the mystery that ate at me. This was my way into telling RETURN TO SENDER, a short about our desire for control over our lives.