Body Talk

After seven years of self-imposed isolation following her famous fitness-guru father's highly publicized death, an agoraphobic woman who's built an '80s workout fantasy as her private refuge is thrust into viral fame when her sister posts her tapes forcing her to reclaim her story from a culture that turns grief into content, or disappear for good.

Body Talk grew out of a tension I feel between two worlds that have shaped my life. I grew up with an incredibly protective parent who believed the world was dangerous and something to be approached with caution. Now, as a father myself, I feel a different kind of anxiety: watching a generation grow up inside an internet ecosystem built on algorithms, attention economies, and addictive design. This film sits at the intersection of those fears. It explores what happens when a young woman raised inside a carefully constructed bubble of protection steps into a digital world that immediately tries to consume and commodify her identity. Both environments claim to offer safety or connection, but each ultimately functions as a kind of prison.

At its heart, Body Talk asks a question that feels increasingly urgent in modern life: How do you live authentically in a world that is already constructed? The story examines the tension between nostalgia and progress, privacy and visibility, protection and autonomy. It's about the systems that shape us before we even understand them: family, media, technology and the challenge of reclaiming agency within them. Rather than choosing between retreating from the world or performing for it, the film explores the possibility of a third path: learning how to engage with life on your own terms, even when every structure around you is trying to define who you are.