Alter Anthesis is a comment on the mental adaption for young women caused by their online presence. More specifically, being subject to online sexual predators of any scale and navigating your perception and a new awareness of your sexuality.
My story is about a teenage girl who comes into contact with a person online who claims to have been at the same party as her. It takes place in her room, and the focus is solely on her and her laptop. The story’s arch is their intensifying relationship, specifically how the sexual nature and demands escalate as he gains her trust and liking. This manifests through their text messages conversation that appears on the screen.
The film’s climax is discovering that my character creates another, more mature identity to cope with how mature she’s forced to be. A person she’s made that can perform as she’s now forced to online. This is shown in the final part of the film where two of my actress are sat on the same bed. One controls the text messaging in a silk slip dress, the other watches in an oversized T-shirt.
She fell into this trap because her innocence is commodified; she is taken advantage of by a patriarchal system we fostered online. But that is not what it feels like to her. The culture we have created around online sexual activity spreads itself to our youth’s introduction to sexuality. It has incredibly damaging effects on the developing brain and maturing of young women. They have no outlet for coping with many different emotions surrounding these new experiences they can’t avoid online.
They have no guidance on how to navigate the complicated feelings because their peers are under the same pressures, and children cant feel comfortable talking to their parents out of fear of judgment or punishment. The guilt and overwhelm my character experiences cause her to act out in other ways to cope and feel “matched up” to how mature she has to be now—represented in the transition of her nightstand from stuffed animals to alcohol bottles.
Her innocent self is constantly battling the alter because of the negative emotions that she must bear. You watch the alter take control as the music swells and the pink montage of her body begins. The second half of the montage with her in the bath is the after-effects, feeling like she’s drowning in water but will never be clean.
The use of colour and lighting in the film accentuates the toxically feminine energy that she has manifested. The presence of the male gaze also forces her to appear more feminine, hence the pink and red. It is profoundly saturated and warm in the second half of the montage, representing how suffocating the presence and guilt are.
The film’s title represents the literal alter personality or the altering of her anthesis, which is the flowering period of a plant or its maturing.
The final sentence of a film acts as concrete evidence for how many young women experience this online.
My story is about a teenage girl who comes into contact with a person online who claims to have been at the same party as her. It takes place in her room, and the focus is solely on her and her laptop. The story’s arch is their intensifying relationship, specifically how the sexual nature and demands escalate as he gains her trust and liking. This manifests through their text messages conversation that appears on the screen.
The film’s climax is discovering that my character creates another, more mature identity to cope with how mature she’s forced to be. A person she’s made that can perform as she’s now forced to online. This is shown in the final part of the film where two of my actress are sat on the same bed. One controls the text messaging in a silk slip dress, the other watches in an oversized T-shirt.
She fell into this trap because her innocence is commodified; she is taken advantage of by a patriarchal system we fostered online. But that is not what it feels like to her. The culture we have created around online sexual activity spreads itself to our youth’s introduction to sexuality. It has incredibly damaging effects on the developing brain and maturing of young women. They have no outlet for coping with many different emotions surrounding these new experiences they can’t avoid online.
They have no guidance on how to navigate the complicated feelings because their peers are under the same pressures, and children cant feel comfortable talking to their parents out of fear of judgment or punishment. The guilt and overwhelm my character experiences cause her to act out in other ways to cope and feel “matched up” to how mature she has to be now—represented in the transition of her nightstand from stuffed animals to alcohol bottles.
Her innocent self is constantly battling the alter because of the negative emotions that she must bear. You watch the alter take control as the music swells and the pink montage of her body begins. The second half of the montage with her in the bath is the after-effects, feeling like she’s drowning in water but will never be clean.
The use of colour and lighting in the film accentuates the toxically feminine energy that she has manifested. The presence of the male gaze also forces her to appear more feminine, hence the pink and red. It is profoundly saturated and warm in the second half of the montage, representing how suffocating the presence and guilt are.
The film’s title represents the literal alter personality or the altering of her anthesis, which is the flowering period of a plant or its maturing.
The final sentence of a film acts as concrete evidence for how many young women experience this online.