SOCIAL DISTORTION

Synopsis

An Art film that subverts the ostracising label of ‘otherness’. Social Distortion empowers the individual and collective refusal to accept social attitudes perpetuated through willful ignorance.

Production Notes

SOCIAL DISTORTION is a new short film from Director, Stefano Ottaviano.

In this film, Stefano playfully distorts and twists contemporary fashion film conventions, while intertwining archive footage from the 70’s punk movement and modern day Black Lives Matter and Climate Justice civil disobedience to contextualise the film’s poem.

Using “Adam” to represent the conforming and complicit people who continue to perpetuate the white male patriarchy, the film’s poem discusses “the children of Eve”, people on the fringes of society who are finding community and strength in their ‘otherness’, subverting labels that had been used to control them.

Returning to previous collaborators, the film features a poem by Charli Whatley, choreography by Theo J Lowe and dance performance from Theophillus ‘Godson’ Oloyade.

SOCIAL DISTORTION was generously supported by UNIT9 Films, The Mill and Room One Films.

In November 2018, at the Toni & Guy “Breakthrough” internal fashion show competition a version of the film was screened as part of the presentation by a team of Toni & Guy hair stylists who worked on the production, where it won the award for Best Film. Since this time, the production team has developed the film further in post with world class studios to make it ready for public release.