Maverick (Short 2017)

Maverick: Directed by Cara Stricker. With Abbey Lee, Rhys Coiro. A young woman struggles to break free from a controlling relationship, and reclaim her identity. A prologue of one heartbreaking history of love and gas-lighting. On the edge of sanity in a progressive commune, a young woman looks at strange ways to kill time. When ex-lover Dick arrives unexpectedly, she is forced to confront herself her femininity and begins to see beyond his charismatic manipulation. She’s looking for something more exotic than death – a rebirth. The film deals with the world of a relationship, as an intimate contemporary space to delve into the current climate of a gas-lighting.

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