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Video: Side Hustle
Interweaving fiction with documentary testimony, Side Hustle follows a young dancer making rent with the financial support of her sugar daddy.
Running time: 15 minutes
Writer/Director: Abby Harri
Producers: Maggie Ambrose, Abby Harri
Director of Photography: Shannon Palmer
Editor: Max Bowens
Cast: Eden Martinovsky, Sean Edward Lewis
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“Side Hustle is not only a showcase for Harri’s incredible eye for talent—lead Eden Martinovsky, a dancer, has a natural magnetism—it’s also a nuanced look at the identity-shifting and psychological strategies that go into sugar baby/daddy relationships. The most casual of overnight encounters between a sugar baby and her client opens up unexpected notes of his late-life melancholy and her economic anxiety as she realizes her client is experiencing financial troubles).” — Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine
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A portrait of a complex relationship of a desperate young woman and a lonely old man. No judgements are implied about either character. They are sympathetically rendered as people who care about one another.
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A good portrait, thank you..
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Wow- Almost transhuman with surrealities- visually stunning juxtapositions- power dynamics bumping the edges- YouTubic- I have to avoid that old bugaboo, the male gaze- the pact between money and beauty ending with darkness and a quiet snore…
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What I admire here is how both characters are complex, touching, and sadly surviving their quotidian as best they can. And, oh, as Jim says, that “quiet snore”…
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And boy, that sandwich looked tasty. The guy ate up that scene on first viewing, but the second time watching, I was impressed by her own quiet power. The visuals stun, but the dialogue and body language tell of deep realities. My own family now has a 97 yr. old Sugar Daddy and a 67 year old Sugar Baby. You are so right, Laure-Anne, it gets complicated, but they are both very human.
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