Me and My Victim
Directed by Maurane, Billy Pedlow
Hosted by Director Maurane, Director Billy Pedlow, Actor Andrew Foster, Artistic Team Julian Abbott
Director
Maurane, Billy Pedlow
Cast
Wes Civilz, Maurane, Billy Pedlow
Editor
Maurane
contact
Independant
In an era of digital meditation, where our communication is relegated to the sleek impersonality of screens, the carnal becomes uncomfortable. The devices we rely on to “stay connected” often have the opposite effect, seeding discord, confusion, and misunderstandings. As Gen Z heartthrob Nicholas Galitzine said in a recent interview with British magazine GQ, “due to the digital age, something so human as having sex feels like an affront.” With their feature debut ME AND MY VICTIM, filmmakers Maurane and Billy Pedlow confront this idea head on. A messy, whirlwind, imperfect, orgasmic, meme-inflected jump into the rabbit hole of their on-again, off-again situationship, their ultra-micro-budget (the film was made for less than $1000 USD) confession playfully captures the humanity of love and lust in the 21st Century.
ME AND MY VICTIM recounts the “kind of fucked up” meeting between Maurane and Billy Pedlow. She lives in Montreal, he lives in New York. She’s a multimedia artist specializing in video art and he’s a poet. Not quite friends and not quite lovers, their meeting feels palpably contemporary in its defiance of labels and firm boundaries. The project started as a poetry book that Billy Pedlow was going to call “My Friend Maurane”, but when he realized “no one is ever going to read it,” it evolved to become this film. Structured around an off-the-cuff audio recording and built as a kind of Tumblr-esque collage, the film explores, with brutal and paradoxical honesty, the complexity of sex and desire. An auto-fictional parable for the digital age, the transgressive ME AND MY VICTIM is the polar opposite of the imperfect perfection of artificial intelligence. The final effect is reminiscent of turning over a rock and witnessing a full ecosystem of creepy-crawlies scattering in the light. It’ll make you cringe, but it’ll be hard to look away. – Justine Smith
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