Entry: 2022 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Short Film Challenge

Don't be a Chicken

Creator: Soham Kundu
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About this Video

A couple's relationship is disrupted after a third enters their dynamic. A contemporary take on performative masculinity and modern relationships taking upon the quote "You eventually become the person you love".
What follows is nothing short of a greek weird wave thriller layered in black humour.

Director's Note
I wanted the man to identity as chicken based on the pun, and explore his vulnerability to normalise the idea that men can be vulnerable, weak, capable of love/loving, in a society which associates men with bravery/bravado, which reversely adds up to toxic masculinity.

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Soham Kundu

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