Are You OK?
The blurb: Sara experiences another woman’s orgasm and gets a new view on life.
This is such a great film. The visuals are so evocative and visceral and it really invites the viewer into the world of our protagonist. What looks like a sexy and sensual holiday becomes a less-than-thrilling experience as our heroine begins to feel jealous, insecure and inadequate. The filmmaker has a lot of fun with visual double entendres and intense soundscapes.
This film is by Norwegian writer and director Mattis Ohana Goksøyr. He came up with the idea for the film during the pandemic isolation.
He told Director’s Notes:
It is easy to forget in an eternal rush for self-realization and maximization of life, how good we have it, even under Covid isolation. When the protagonist experiences another woman’s intense orgasm, she forgets to live in the now. As she is trapped in a chase after her own elevated orgasm, a long weekend at the summer cottage is experienced as a few short minutes. And what else might she miss in life?
My previous short films have all been dialogue-driven dramas, and with this film I wanted to focus on the visual and the audiovisual aspects rather than dialogue. I started to write what was supposed to be a voice-over film, but the voice disappeared in the edit when we saw that picture and sound design told what we wanted and at the same time left more up to the audience’s interpretation.
I always wanted the protagonist to snap back to reality. Time and space shifts after her experiencing another woman’s orgasm and the rest of the weekend at the summer place are all about her fascination with that other woman. There is a lot of humour in this film, and I wanted to underline that with this ‘back to reality’ moment where we see four young privileged adults enjoying themselves on a summer afternoon.
If people leave the cinema and for a fraction of a second wonder if they themselves will ever experience such an orgasm before they die, then I am happy.
Length: 4:02
Director: Mattis Ohana Goksøyr
Year: 2021