Christina Amundsen/The Current
We’re teaming with The Current for the next two months to deliver 10 short films from 10 different directors, focused on social trends explored through cinema.
The second short film, Download Repost Share Enjoy, is a deeply unsettling bit of experimental video art that delivers the text from a revenge porn site manifesto in extreme close-up with an anonymous beard mouth. It’s blended with scenes where a young woman looks imprisoned in a way Buffalo Bill might enjoy and a too-young man feverishly clicking his keyboard. The result is uncomfortable, particularly with the droning synth discordance backing it.
“Revenge porn is a disgusting tendency that’s developing throughout the internet,” says director Christina Amundsen. “When the picture is first exposed there is no going back. It will be spread all over the world. It is important to create awareness to this since sexism still exists in our society. I am shocked to discover the statements of the men behind the revenge websites. It is something people need to know and stop now. I want to show how being exposed by revenge porn can ruin a woman’s life.”