"ITS PROBABLY ME" IS MY FIRST SHORT FILM.
IT WAS WRITTEN AND FILMED DURING THE PANDEMIC AND REFLECT OUR EXPERIENCE DURING THAT TIME.
"ALL OF HUMANITY'S PROBLEMS STEM FROM MAN'S INABILITY TO SIT QUIETLY IN A ROOM ALONE"
- BLAISE PASCAL
SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET QUARANTINED IN A SMALL HOUSE WITH YOUR FAMILY?
MY OWN EXPERIENCE OF THE 2020 QUARANTINE STARTED WITH A NOT SO GREAT EMOTIONAL COCKTAIL OF ANXIOUSNESS,
FRUSTRATION AND IMPATIENCE...
AS THE COVID-19 STAYINPLACE EXTENDED AND THE TENSION WITHIN MYSELF AND BETWEEN MY WIFE AND I ESCALATED, I REALIZED I CAN'T, AND DIDN'T WANT TO, BE THIS NOT SO GREAT VERSION OF MYSELF. WITH THIS REALIZATION CAME A BIG SHIFT...
IN THIS FILM I WANT TO EXPOSE THE IDEA THAT BEING STUCK TOGETHER CAN BE GOOD FOR US... TENSION WILL RISE AS WE HOLD ON TO OUR INDIVIDUALITY, BUT WILL EVENTUALLY, IF WE HANG IN THERE LONG ENOUGH, GIVE WAY FOR THE UNIT, THE FAMILY, TO BE THE MOST IMPORTANT.
IN THIS SHIFT WE GET TO KNOW OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER AT A DEEPER AND MORE MEANINGFUL LEVEL. IN THIS SHORT FILM WE FOLLOW A MOM AND DAUGHTER THROUGH THIS ARC OF INDIVIDUALITY AND TENSION GIVING WAY TO A DEEPER CONNECTION AND UNDERSTANDING.