A young man breaks.

Format: Short Film (15 Minutes)

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Role: Writer, Director, Editor

Director’s Statement:

I hate saying that I don’t know who I am. It's steeped in adolescence, which is something I should have left behind. But, for me at least, it’s true; I’m sure that’s enviable to some and horrific to others. I find it liberating and exhausting - but I keep trying to figure it out, to find solid ground. This process is bloody and is usually guided by some other force, usually a person, in my life. Only recently have I tepidly begun to plant my own markers, staking out a self among the muck left behind.

This is what HIM is about - but also what it is. Exploring my own intentions and instinct and voice free from what others may want or suggest through a story about a man stuck in a cycle of radical self-annihilation. Well, I guess it’s about him breaking free from it, one way or another. I don’t know if I will be able to break free from letting other people define me; maybe I’ve already lost that battle and I just don’t know it. But HIM seems like a good place as any to start trying