BAPTISM, 8min, USA
Directed by Alex Alexander
The relief, the rest that comes from truth.
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Get to know the filmmaker:
The inspiration and the motivation were very separate things.
The desire to be seen and known is intrinsic to the human experience, to be held in your truest most authentic form and understood in that moment, and I too am human. This is a self exploration, aided by the love and attendance and patience of a partner. The patience and gentleness of my partner, the way they often bathed me, the way they support whoever I am and guided me without ever forcing.
This was my first attempt at making a film, I wanted to do something close to my heart that I understood innately to iliminate any complications with foreign subject matter. This is actually a nugget of an idea for a much more complicated story.
The actual motivation was that the locations and team were going to become unavailable at the end of summer and I knew it was time to start moving on this idea!.
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