Quell

Quell is the shared history and present of two souls, distilled into a moment, suspended in space and time. It is a window into a love that has turned sour, where care has turned into a smothering, intense dependency. We watch as tenderness becomes something violent, and two people are caught between the urge to escape, and the allure of surrendering to a familiar loop of toxic patterns. Deeply inspired by Sylvia Plath's poem, The Rival (https://hellopoetry.com/poem/714/the-rival/), Quell is a portrait of fear, remembered love, resentment, and the human tendency to hold on tightly to things which cause us pain.