Film

"I Lived in Bathrooms" is short film that was written filmed and edited in under 24 hours. Shot by Salima El Mountassir on my Sony A7 IV. Lighting, script, acting and editing all done by me. By the time I was 14, I had moved 14 times. Everywhere I moved to had a bathroom, from a young age I began to enjoy hiding in the bathroom, I would sit in cabinets under the sink and enjoy the sense of freedom it gave me. Bathrooms are incredibly transformative places, you come out changed, you purify yourself weather through sterilization or through excretion. As I grew older public bathrooms also became a place to calm myself, I struggled with panic attacks and could go sit in a restroom for a brief escape from the chaos outside. In the film I attempt to display an element of intrusive or unnerving thoughts experienced in these states of panic while also coming back to my childhood experiences with bathrooms.