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 male “safe space” of the “man cave” invaded by girls, culminating in absurd, exuberant fantasy.
Video is out for festival submissions and not publicly viewable at this time.