With one's self (2025)

During the 2020 pandemic, I found myself in my final year at University, trying to navigate through the challenges and uncertainties it brought. Despite the difficult conditions, I chose to stay at my university accommodation and faced feelings of intense loneliness. It was during this period that I decided to channel my emotions into a creative project - a short film. This project became a form of self-discovery and a way to experiment with different aspects of filmmaking.

Research indicates that men are more sexually aroused by visual stimuli, but women are more sexually aroused by concrete, auditory, olfactory, touch and emotionally relevant sexual stimulation. The film's focus is on the act of self-touch and the sensory experiences that arise from it for a woman. It explores the power that embracing and loving oneself as a woman can evoke feelings of warmth, contentment, and a sense of safety similar to that experienced with a partner.

We live in a world where, as women, we are still pressured by a nonsensical life purpose to be paired off with someone for life. A place where we are celebrated more by producing offspring rather than succeeding in our true dreams. Through this short film, I hope to inspire confidence in female independence and self-love by sharing my own experiences of vulnerability and success in embracing loneliness.

Director - Hannah Bolt

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Hannah Bolt

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Hannah Bolt

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Hannah Bolt

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Hannah Bolt

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