// Presented as part of July's American Indie III Series //

Theodore Collatos / 2017, SXSW, AFI, Berlin Critics Week, Boston Independent Film Festival, Bushwick, Champs-Élysées, IndieMemphis, Mumbai, San Francisco Independent, Sidewalk Film Festival / 77'

Claire and her fiancée Monica embark from the boisterous streets of New York City to the Berkshires, where Claire has been invited to stage her latest work at a rural theater company. While Claire's actors question her ability to write heterosexual dialogue, Monica, an environmental engineer in search of rest and relaxation, encounters her own source of micro-aggression—Mutty, the groundskeeper, is completely oblivious to social boundaries, intruding into Monica's inner sanctum at seemingly any moment.

Elusive, gripping, and unnerving in equal measure, Tormenting the Hen is an incisive study into contemporary gender dynamics and the politics of relation, capturing the dread of the female experience in broad daylight. Theodore Collatos's third narrative feature premiered at SXSW, IndieMemphis, AFI, and Berlin Critics Week.