Five masks, one brutal question: do you actually know who's performing anymore?
Selfhood follows 5 individuals and the difference between their sense of self compared to how they present theirselves to the outside world.
Acting
Cast uses real vulnerabilities, not technique
Direction
Brownlie lets silence do the screaming
Editing
Five threads woven like shared insomnia
Director
Lewis Brownlie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Britain's 2023 mental health funding crisis; cast includes first-time actors drawn from actual support groups.
The 28-minute runtime mirrors a therapy session—Brownlie allegedly cut 40 minutes to force this constraint. The suffocation is intentional.
GB
