Filmmaker Statement

In a society where the able-bodied, capitalist status quo expects disabled people to exist as either inspiration porn or freaks of nature, it becomes a provocation to remember the complex truth of who one is outside this conditioning. This film portrays a white disabled woman getting ready in their bedroom's posed private sanctuary, observing their scars and contortions in the mirror, and then stepping out into a public community space to be ignored or turned into something they aren't. It's a portrayal of the subtleties of everyday violence toward disabled people. In the end, when the main character arrives with her friend at a music show by the disabled artist Gabriel Rodreick or "Freaque" the camera pans to blaring music as Freaque sings "I can't make you love me if you don't" the goal is to remind the audience that disabled people have to learn to love themselves outside of the capitalistic defined standards of worth, as we all should to combat its destructiveness.