Eve’s Exile is an attempt to understand the feminine by retelling the story from the Book of Genesis and turning its inherent misogyny on its head. Through intellectual, emotional and societal exile, women have discovered they’re stronger without men. Banished to the shadows, they bide their time and quietly re-write the rules of reality.

As women escape their stereotypical roles, men are forced to re-examine their masculinity. In this piece, masculinity only exists as an implied absence.

This film was born out of a fear that the ability to love has been sucked out of me–an experience I imagine all thinking and feeling people go through. Perhaps love is so hard because we all feel like we need to love on our own terms and not the other person's. The disease of solipsism we are all plagued with and seek to escape causes the male female blindness that heterosexuals all face. We can’t see each other because we can’t see past ourselves. True love is perhaps scary because we become one with the other and our solipsistic tendencies wash away making us naked but not alone. I used 16mm high contrast film stock to emphasize the highlights and shadows so often associated with the hetero dynamic. This film is a search for the grey.

I have always felt more connected to women spiritually. I’ve often thought that women hold dominion over the spiritual realm and men control the physical plane. This is where the great struggle to define reality exists: what is seen vs what is felt. The images are a projection of the inner life of women that will always be beyond my grasp, despite my efforts to see the other.