The monotony of malevolence

In Canada, between March and October 2020, as households adjusted to stay-at-home orders, calls to services such as The Assaulted Women’s Helpline and the Battered Women’s Support Services increased by 400 per cent. 

This deftly produced film created by Bensimon Byrne/Narrative/OneMethod, and directed by Oscar-nominated director Hubert Davis, through Untitled Films, follows the story of a couple experiencing the relentless frustrations of lockdown. Frustrations that lead to a repetitive pattern of domestic abuse. 

Told from the separate perspectives of the partners, Day After Day uses the same set of words to tell two very different stories of isolation: one of the man, trapped in increasingly negative ways of thinking; and then of the woman, who is trapped inside her home with a partner who’s becoming increasingly volatile and threatening.

In 2019, the director worked with White Ribbon on Boys Don’t Cry, an award-winning PSA that offered a heart-wrenching look at the roots of toxic masculinity. 

White Ribbon is the world's largest movement of men working to end violence against women and girls, promote gender equality and foster a new vision of masculinity.