What a Piece of Work is Man Shorts Program

WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS MAN Shorts Program
Friday, September 17, 2021 at 6:00 PM
Shorts Program | 74 MIN
General Admission $10 | Student + Children $8

OBJECTIFIED
NARRATIVE SHORT | 2.5 MIN | EL SALVADOR
Directed by Vanesa Tomasino

Objectified, aka “Cosificada”, shows the cycle of sexual harassment in El Salvador’s public transportation that negatively impacts the lives, rights and human dignity of women and children in the smallest Central American country.

OUR STREETS
NARRATIVE SHORT | 14.5 MIN | UK
Directed by Victoria Malinjod

Think the world being on lockdown would help when it comes to street harassment? Think again, the stats are rising and with many businesses closed - places where we might seek refuge from being followed or harassed - there’s often nowhere to turn. Women share their stories of street harassment.

THE CASE
NARRATIVE SHORT | 11.5 MIN | INDIA
Directed by Arun Varghese

When Renu, a lawyer, questions another woman's decision to withdraw a court case, she must come to terms with her own dilemmas.

QUIET ON SET
NARRATIVE SHORT | 7.5 MIN | USA
Directed by Jeanette Buck

Quiet on Set dissects the filming and consumption of a sex scene within a film where the lead actress has been violated during the shooting of the scene. Loosely inspired by the many stories that have surfaced during the #MeToo movement, Quiet on Set looks at the lines between performance and reality, consent and assault, violator and complicit witness.

CHRISTMAS EVE EVE OR: THE THINGS I CAN'T REMEMBER
NARRATIVE SHORT | 13.5 MIN | USA
Directed by Suzanne Lenz and Tom Bean

This fictional account of a woman going home for the holidays where she's forced to confront an unresolved family trauma, is rooted in writer/director Suzanne Lenz’s real life family experience with suicide, substance abuse, self-harm, and trauma.

I LOOK INTO YOUR EYES AS I HEAL WHAT I'VE BEEN WOUNDED
NARRATIVE SHORT | 2.5 MIN | FRANCE
Directed by Laurene Praget

This video self-portrait poem is about how the patriarchal system enters our beds, our hearts, the depths of our personal lives. It enters into everyday life and comes to touch our bodies and lives since we are children and leaves marks, less or more profound, depending on the history of each one.

YOU HAVEN'T SEEN WHAT I'VE SEEN
NARRATIVE SHORT | 22 MIN | POLAND
Directed by Ewa Lang

Domestic violence through a child’s eyes and imagination.