Trauma Culture Official Video

Marly Hall is making her Directorial debut on Hounds. - Trauma Culture music video after years of working behind the scenes of television, movies, and in theatre. Hall graduated from USC with a BFA in theatre design, emphasizing in Costume Design and has worked as a costume designer for close to 12 years and worked on some of your favorite shows like Nailed It, Ru Pauls Drag Race All Stars, and Wipe Out. After all of this time of telling other people’s stories, Hall and her longterm partner and love Kyle Berzle created this unique opportunity for her to tell her own story, from the music, to the writing, casting, producing, art, costume design, and performance, in addition to directing. Hall’s deep connection to character that she nurtured through costume design, and her own personal life experience in the world give her immense empathy and translate deeply on screen through the characters she creates. Hall’s main goals as an artist and now director are to provide opportunities to discuss important and often heavily stigmatized topics that women experience daily, like trauma, ptsd, abuse, fear, anxiety and empowerment. She uses very bold, dramatic and powerful images to collect an overall emotion that bursts off the screen immediately - something that draws you in and sucks you right into the moment so you’re no longer a witness, you’re a passenger. Hall herself is a survivor and lives with c-pstd and daily mental health struggles and believes that through these conversations we are able to liberate ourselves from this traumatic world that we operate in daily.