Trailer: Intense, Feminist Thriller, Felt

The official trailer for June’s confrontational, must-see Felt is here. 

From the director of the raw, spellbinding Toad Road, Jason Banker, Felt is an unsettling, frank, feminist portrait of dealing with trauma. Banker continues his doc-like approach to craft a narrative around real, incredible visual artist Amy Everson. The filmmaker’s observational aesthetic chronicles her life of inner anguish following sexual assault, the ensuing distress and lays bare the regularly hostile attitude the world has toward women.

I’m repeating myself a bit, but Felt is a really special, challenging film. Amplify is releasing on June 26^th in theaters and July 21^st on digital and VOD. I very much hope you see it. 

The full synopsis follows. Indiewire premiered the NSFW clip. 

Felt stars Amy Everson in a breakout performance as a young woman trying, and almost succeeding, to overcome both a past trauma and the subtle aggressions she experiences daily from the men in her world by immersing herself in her art. By re-appropriating the male form into an unpredictable alter ego, she may be pushing away her friends, but the power and domination she feels is the only thing that finally may allow her to heal. When she meets Kenny (actor/filmmaker Kentucker Audley), she slowly opens herself up to him, hoping to have her faith in men restored.