Tim’s Success Story

“Tim’s Success Story” is a mid length experimental documentary film that follows a young man on aquest to find love and transform his life, using various masculinist self-help programs and YouTube gurus as his guides. The film merges traditional interview strategies with movement based exercises, creative visualizations and experimental editing as narrative tools.

Synopsis: Tim spent most of his life in solitude and silence, until the discovery of an online self- improvement community geared towards lonely men opened up a pathway to overcome his anxiety. “Tim’s Success Story” is an experimental documentary that incorporates an embodied, exploratory approach to interviews and follows this 28-year-old man as he embarks on an all-consuming quest for love and self-betterment, using various male-oriented self-help programs and YouTube gurus as his guides.

Production Notes: The footage from this film comes from two development shoots that I self-produced. This is a rough cut that was screened as part of an artistic residency in Vancouver in late 2019. I have since received an OAC media arts creation grant to continue production and post-production for the purposes of finishing this work as a short film. This project was also accepted into the DOC Institute Breakthrough Program. Production has largely been curtailed because of Covid, however, I am continuing to work on it and push the film’s initial plans in post-production.