Dead To Me
Director: Stephanie Miles
Short-Documentary
Horror/Thriller |
USA |
11 min
English
This documentary sheds an interesting light on Julia Brunson, a queer female artist attending a mortuary science institute. Julia has experienced a lot of traumatic experiences in her lifetime, and this film explores her journey with healing through creativity and helping others.
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Director’s bio:
Stephanie Miles was born in 2000 at the Jersey Shore and in 2018, she moved to New York City to study film production and journalism where she found her passion for editing and post-production. She loves learning about and connecting with uniquely creative people and sharing their perspective with her audience, so, when she met 22-year-old artist Julia Brunson, she knew she had to share her story in her newest doc, Dead to Me. Brunson explores sexuality, trauma, and mortality through art. In addition to creating her works, she attends mortuary school, where she is studying to become an embalmer and funeral worker.
As a 6-foot-tall woman with brightly colored hair, I know what it feels like as an outlier, and be perceived as unusual. I’m motivated to connect with others who feel the same. I initially enrolled at Marymount Manhattan College as a Digital Journalism major looking forward to having an opportunity to meet and interview people I find fascinating and provide a vessel for them to tell their story. However, I quickly realized writing articles and profiles was not a sufficient medium for the stories I wanted to tell. I wanted my audience to be able to see and hear my subject to hopefully connect with them in the way that I got to. For this reason, I switched my major to Film and Video Production, making my minor Digital Journalism. Combining journalism with video production gave rise to my love for documentary and non-
fiction filmmaking. My work consists of an array of themes, but I often look to explore the lives and experiences of unheard, oppressed, or otherwise compelling individuals.