You, Me, Us

Elizabeth keeps her biggest secret locked away, and his name is Roy. In Danylo Hauk's five-minute metaphorical drama, two personalities share a single body: Elizabeth, who presents to the world, and Roy, the male self she works to suppress. The arrangement holds until Roy begins pushing to break free, and the struggle between them becomes a physical, visible battle for control of the body they both inhabit. Elena Isabel and Reid Barraza embody the two sides of one person, and the film uses their tug of war to convey the inner experience of bigender people, for whom identity is not a single fixed point but a negotiation. Compact and expressive, You, Me, Us turns an abstract idea into something viscerally felt. It screens as part of the anthology Queer Quickies 210.