Glitch Baby // Short Film // 2024
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Set in the early 90s, Glitch Baby is a short film that takes a quantum genre twist on the usual queer coming-of-age story when an unexpected show of affection on the soccer field leaves a young tomboy humiliated and questioning her place in the universe. In this self-defining moment, she triggers a quantum phenomenon that brings her face to face with a celestial version of herself, and through this encounter, the possibility of self-acceptance
Director's Statement
Glitch Baby is a quantumly charged, queer, coming-of-age story. A love letter to my younger self and a promise to practice self-compassion.
Inspired by Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Russell Legacy, the film explores how rejecting fixed gender binaries can disrupt societal systems and create new pathways of thought.
Drawing from my own experience as a queer kid and the dangers of expressing a non-binary gender or sexuality, Glitch Baby allowed me to explore my queerness without it feeling overdone or pedantic. After much studying, I found how Glitch Baby could serve as a human-scaled metaphor for a particle in superposition and entanglement. I found myself emotionally and spiritually drawn to the similarities between these discoveries and the fluidity of gender identity and sexuality.
The addition of the Light Being and Bea's entangled consciousness visually represents quantum phenomena, while exploring shame and fear’s impact on a young queer person’s self-worth. Through her journey, Bea learns self-acceptance and the power of embracing one’s undefinability.
Glitch Baby is about embracing our fluid selves, breaking down harmful binaries, and finding true authenticity. Celine is currently developing Glitch Baby as a feature film.
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