Thirst

This 15 minute short focuses on a girl, Tammy Ballaban, and her struggle with anorexia. A kaleidoscope of images and sounds reflect the dialectic between Tammy’s conscious and unconscious self. Tammy’s candid observations about her anorexia are interspersed with off-screen voices of therapists and family members, adding weight to the protagonist’s plight. In today’s media saturated society we are exposed to endless images of anorexic celebrities. Jessica Joy WISE’s film is remarkable for bringing new insight and understanding to this subject-matter and shifting it away from the world of celebrity chic, with its associations of emaciated catwalk models and bulimic princesses.