Watching Us
2018
8 minutes
Single channel video with audio
Driven to inward turmoil by the constant voyeurism of the viewer outside her apartment window, a woman struggles to hold onto her own identity while having sex with her lover. A deeply personal film, Watching Us explores the fear of being consumption as queer women, examining how the act of being watched changes those being examined. Constantly repeating a slow lateral dolly movement through the woman’s apartment, we see how being watched shapes our internal understandings of ourselves and our sexualities.
2020 Dawson City Film Festival, Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada
2019 Victoria Short Film Festival, Victoria, Canada
2019 “Post-Patriarchy? New Acquisitions Screening”, curated by Casey Wei, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada
Distributed by Video Out Distribution. Please contact info [at] videoout.ca for screening information.
Special thanks to cast members Stina Olinski and Caisha Lea Thompson, and the amazing crew who all supported the creation of this film.