CloseAfter years of being taught to suppress her anger, a young woman takes back the night as a Brooklyn Banshee.
I don't always know what a film is really saying when I begin making it.
I usually start with something I am trying to understand, then use the filmmaking process to explore it. The story changes as I explore it. Characters change. Ideas change. The process reveals something I didn't see at the beginning.
That is what I experienced with Something Happened. I began with a story about victimization and the fear women carry through the world. But as I wrote, performed, developed the character, and built the world around her, I became more interested in something underneath that experience: anger, and what happens when you stop trying to suppress it.
We learn to be ashamed of our anger, to hide it, swallow it, make it acceptable. We learn to be smaller, quieter, more agreeable, shaping our lives around other people’s comfort, even at our own expense. But what happens when we stop? Something Happened asks what becomes possible when anger is no longer something to fear, but something we can use to take our power back.
