Hold My Beer, Bro, 2020.
‘Hold my beer, bro’ reflects on how we interact with portrayals of traditionally masculine ideals and male relationships, using archival footage, screen capture and filmed footage. All (non-film) found footage was sourced from social media posts that had ‘hold my beer’ in the descriptions. The call of “hold my beer” initiates acts of recklessness, bravery, strength. But it also acknowledges and mocks the absurdity of archaic unattainable masculine ideals in today's world to the point where they are laughable. The majority of popular videos with a ‘hold my beer’ tag are displays of the failure to embody male stereotypes. In this film, attempting to perform those ideals leads to bodily harm, death, disgrace and emasculation; the ultimate display of masculinity is the self-destruction or self harm of the male body itself.