Anxiety During Isolation? It’s not just you.

Director, Maik Schuster’s riveting film explores ‘what we see.’

Imagine the inception of a film beginning with a simple instagram post and question? What does it feel like to be isolated? To a skeptic this may seem a bit unordinary right? Not for Director, Maik Schuster. A simple question transpired into an inescapable visual vignette on film. The stories of people sharing their fears, anxiety, hopes and dream through a series of online interviews is beautifully and at times disturbingly captured in this poignant film. It is all in real reality- with no influence or spins. Just honesty and transparency. “What We See” is vulnerability in its most authentic definition. An invitation into varied worlds with common experiences- which even in this pandemic and intense racial climate reveals how much more alike we are then different. This is the beauty of “What We see.” This is the kind of cinematography and storytelling many of us crave for in a world inundated with a plethora of content that leaves us un-inspired and lifeless.

Life itself is strange enough and confusing. When you add the ingredient of isolation it transpires into an imbalanced matrix of confusion and uncertainty. Isolation has become our new normal, this is clear. How we mentally navigate through this Covid 19 pandemic in isolation is a…