Hedda tries to approach Adam in every way she can, but everything she does turns out wrong. And Adam gets to break all the rules. A film about never being able to win, even though you’re the best, with the gym hall as its arena.
Direction
Thelin weaponizes the wide shot — the gym becomes a panopticon.
Acting
Gurmu's face holds an entire short film's worth of defeat.
Director
Julia Thelin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Julia Thelin made this as her grad film at Stockholm's film school — it toured festivals and became a calling card for interrogating how teenage girls absorb public failure.
The title 'Push It' references both the Salt-N-Pepa song and the literal gym command — the film weaponizes the gap between female empowerment anthems and lived adolescent reality.
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