In this 9-minute and 55-second experimental film, viewers are taken on a journey of “undoing” as the film’s author-protagonist unstitches her way to healing and catharsis, one stitch at a time, after the end of an abusive 20-year marriage. The subject: their wedding garments. The undoing took 42 hours, 12 minutes, 58 seconds and resulted in 228 pieces of fabric, 59 buttons, and 1 buckle.

An Undoing has been selected for numerous film festivals, among these, New York Shorts Awards, Female Film Festival, The Film Collective Short Film Festival, Red Dirt Film Festival, Amsterdam Movie Fest, Women’s Voices Now Festival, The NewsFest (true stories), International Women’s Film Festival (Denmark), and Women’s International Film Festival and has been recognized with awards, including Best Experimental Film. The film is dedicated to the garment makers, PaoSheng Lin and Mario Sciales, with special thanks to video and sound editor Varun Chharia. Listen to a podcast interview with Female Film Festival about the Film (or watch the podcast interview).