“Making work about something other than yourself, in some ways, is more egotistical since your audience is deprived of your complete embodiment. It is impossible to completely remove “the self” from anything one makes, and sharing the body of this “self” to the point of vulnerability is a form of deprivation for the filmmaker. It allows an audience to project themselves towards something other than the(ir) self. My failures (sexual or otherwise) have the potential to evoke sensory reaction, producing either comfort or discomfort within an audience.
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