Bodies: An Anthropocene Film is a short film inspired by and dedicated to Thomasin Ringer and other UW-Madison students who put on and created the “Fashion For the Nuclear Age” show in the middle of State Street in 1985. Our film brings awareness to the climate crisis showcasing the ecological relationship between humans and the Earth. With three vignettes, it is made with the intent to challenge the viewers to embrace their interconnectedness with nature in order to not become victims to their own actions. Simultaneously, we are recognizing the Indigenous communities whose cultures and ways of being have always respected this relationship. With this, it is acknowledged that production took place on the ancestral land of the Ho-Chunk Nation.

As the Assistant Director and Stylist I had a huge role in creating, coordinating, and executing all three vignettes. I did everything from creating a dress out of plastic bags, foraging plants and gluing them onto bodies, transporting a treadmill to the middle of a field, making homemade eco-friendly “sludge,” to getting waist deep in the lake to position models perfectly with *just* the right amount of seaweed and sludge combo. This was such an amazing project to work on with so many other talented people and I thank Sam Starks so much for bringing me in on this project and trusting that I could help execute her vision.