Filmmaker Statement

A surrealist AI short film that confronts toxic masculinity and the normalized presence of misogyny within intimate relationships. Through body horror and dreamlike distortion, the work stages a charged struggle between two individuals negotiating agency, control, and desire. The “worm-like” male figure functions as a metaphor for internalized entitlement and patriarchal conditioning, while the woman actively resists and tests his assertions of dominance within a volatile sexual dynamic. Their confrontation positions intimacy as contested terrain where power is imposed, challenged, and reshaped. The film culminates in the birth of an uncanny being that represents the outcome of this battle, suggesting how toxic power can reproduce itself if left unexamined.