28 Letters

In this short film a lesbian couple fall in love through a series of 28 letters (this amount of letters, however, is implied by both the beginning of the video and its title). The original inspiration for this film stemmed from a gif by Alex Turgeon entitled "Better Homes and Gardens Revisited". As a way to show tribute to the original piece of art the two characters form a relationship using words passed through a door - an action that imitates the motion of lines of poetry in the gif. I also wanted to show tribute to the title itself by showing imagery of both nature and the home.

The subject matter of this video holds a very special place in my heart simply because it features a lesbian couple instead of a nuclear, straight couple as society would expect. I, myself, have recently come out to many of my friends and family as bisexual; a incredibly difficult thing for me to do considering most of my family is heavily religious. Although society as a whole has made leaps and bounds forward in regards to the LGBT community, there are still people who struggle and are scrutinized for their sexual orientation. I hope that, even though it is merely a few seconds over a minute long, this video will help those who watch it to at least see the members of this community as similar to themselves and perhaps open the mind of the audience to want to better understand our perspective.