Nigerian blogger and On-Air personality, Wana Udobang, stars in this short film adaptation of a fictional confessional titled “Shrink.”
The project began as a short story that was published here on Brittle Paper. How awesome is that!
I remember receiving this submission titled “Shrink,” about a woman’s angst-ridden attempt to love her body in spite of being told that her body was not lovable. I read it and knew I had to published it.
{Read “Shrink” HERE}
Inspired by a friend’s work {HERE}, Wana decided to do a film adaptation of the story.
Wana directs with Imoh Umoren doing the shooting and editing.
The film features a woman standing before the mirror and stripped both in body and in soul. She voices dark, unsettling, and private thoughts about what it means to inhabit a body that the world imagines to be unlovely.
Whenever the camera is used as a mirror, the outcome always so courageous.
Thumbs up to Wana! I love these kinds of creative projects.
estrella November 11, 2014 03:08
I saw shrink once and didn't read it. I judged it before i read it as another one of those poems by a woman not strong enough to be sick and tired of being sick and tired. But today i read it and watched the short film. And i just want to say that I am sorry. Sometimes, we fail to understand the struggle that certain people go through and judge them before we even know them. Wana, You are a strong woman and from what I can tell, you will only become stronger... Thank you for sharing the part of you that we all keep hidden for fear of being rejected..