Panteha Abareshi

In order to prevent further self harming, a young woman is forced to live in a new synthetic body, and must navigate intimacy in a physical form she fundamentally feels disconnected from.

This film is an articulation of the confusion felt around "getting better." Language around illness creates a linear binary of existence, between feeling "better" or "worse"- words which are also connected to notions of "good" and "bad." This piece documents the harrowing process of accepting lifelong sickness.

This film is an articulation of the confusion felt around "getting better." Language around illness creates a linear binary of existence, between feeling "better" or "worse"- words which are also connected to notions of "good" and "bad." This piece documents the harrowing process of accepting lifelong sickness.