Filmmaker Issy Songer is a recent graduate of Brighton Screen and Film School whose film ‘Safe Space’ explores the relatable and delightful variety of school dramas through the perspective of a girls school mirror. From gossip and embarrassing moments, to the unseen struggles of young girls Issy has created a film which explore issues that far surpass the school setting and offers a fresh vantage point of female battlegrounds faced everyday.
“This film simultaneously holds a mirror up to and provides a window into the tumultuous world of the adolescent girl. A supposedly ‘safe space’, the girls toilet in a secondary school is where the real life dramas of young women are acted out across the country, every day. The big themes that run like a golden thread through adolescence are explored with a lightness of touch, which simultaneously invokes a bittersweet nostalgia and a sickening unease as each scene triggers recognition and memories of our own experiences in that supposedly safe space.”
Ahead of the screening of Safe Space at Brighton Rocks 2023 we were able to speak to Issy about the evolution of her writing and production and what she is developing from this hilarious and engaging short.
Screening on Tuesday the 20th of June at 7pm at Fabrica Gallery as part of our Student Film Showcase “New Kids on the Block”
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