Director and Writer of RP

Rape Play is an experimental documentary exploring fanfiction writing amongst teenage girls online and the learned narrativization of sexual experiences. Through interviews, lyrical essays, and fantastical reenactment, it touches on internet history, sexual assault discourse, and the magical cultural production happening in the bedrooms of teenage girls worldwide every day.

The title of the film comes from the tag put on fanfiction to designate depictions of role-played non-consensual encounters.

The film becomes a kind of memoir as I interrogate my own experiences of sexual violence and how reading these fictions at such a young age informed and continues to inform my relationship to sex, violence, and community.

Completed Spring 2023