About six months ago, I started collating a list titled ‘All of the times I have felt uncomfortable or vicariously uncomfortable at work’. If I had recorded every instance of harassment, the list would be the length of a small manifesto.
Author: Maya Costa
Almost every character in Stress Positions is obsessed with their own image, embodying America’s cultural anxiety of irrelevance in the face of otherness. The film takes place in Brooklyn at the beginning of the pandemic, and follows Terry (John Early) as he imposes a quarantine on himself and his nephew, Bahlul (Qaher Harhash), a 19-year-old Moroccan model.
