MTV takes great pains

Produced by female-led production company The Corner Shop, the short film raises the issue of the Pain Gap – a bias in the medical community that leads to women’s pain being under researched, misdiagnosed and untreated. 

Titled The Waves, it is inspired by the words of the writer Virginia Woolf, in her 1931 poetic novel of the same name, and depicts women engaged in familiar rituals of experiencing and concealing pain. 

Agha, an Emmy-nominated director, writer and visual artist, invites us to turn our gaze toward the suffering society has historically looked away from – her work is ultimately a testament to women’s strength, and a celebration of all the ways they survive and thrive.