The Man Cave
A childhood memory brought to life through a mixture of archival found photos, staged scenes, and stop-motion animation, “The Man Cave” is a brief, bewildering journey inside two young girls’ shared dream of manhood. In re-enacting the narrator’s reminiscences, a memory that only ever existed as pure, disembodied play slips into a newly physical form — imagination resurrected and made material.
It takes an experimental approach to personal history, veering from the serious straightforwardness of documentary to the joyful riffs of a musical. With an irreverent, childs’ eye view of sexuality, it constructs a fanciful, proto-feminist realm for its young protagonists to try out adult identities — the “safe space” of the “man cave” invaded by girls, culminating in absurd, exuberant fantasy.
Trailer here. Full video is viewable by request.
Screening history (selected):
2026
Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
UNDER_the_RADAR, Vienna, Austria
Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Porto Femme International Film Festival, Porto, Portugal
Athens International Film + Video Festival , Athens, Ohio, USA
Traverse Vidéo, 29th Rencontres Internationales Traverse, Toulouse, France
VASTLAB Experimental, Los Angeles, California, USA
39th Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany
2025
Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, New York, USA
BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival , Bilbao, Spain