Filmmaker Statement

The Deep Clean comments on the invisible sickness, the soul-rot, that has resulted from our culture of individualism. Specifically it does so through a feminist lens. We have become so obsessed with celebrity idolatry, with climbing the corporate ladder, earning more money, buying more things, looking our best, being busy, that we no longer care about others, even amongst global mass suffering. This is completely antithetical to feminism. To quote famous philosopher Dr. Cornel West— “When you think of the secular these days, you think of careerism, opportunism, hedonism, egoism, individualism— and the ways in which science seems to be driven by corporate greed, seems to be moving toward the explosion of the planet or the collapse of the environment… it’s almost as if everybody recognizes the spiritual decay and the moral decrepitude of the culture,” (The New Yorker). In “The Deep Clean,” our society has made our Protagonist sick and she seeks desperately to cleanse herself of the sickn