Otherkin documentary: British wolf

[lost-shadowwolf.livejournal.com]

Hello all,

As I have read from your community I can tell your aware of a recentlyl documentary done by zigzag productions about otherkin. I participated in this documentary, though I have no actually seen it yet. I can only hope that from what questions I was asked and what things they were interested that my husband and I are not seen as complete idiots. I dont know anything about the other otherkins that were interviewed but I can speak for my husband and my self that while the whole process was a tad intrusive the reason why we choose to do it was for all the awakening kin out there that think they are alone. I had a feeling I would get a lot of flack from the otherkin community for doing this, which is fine as I didnt do it for them. I just wanted to say that my experience with the production team was that they asked very respectful and insightful questions, they were genuinely interested and never did anything my husband and I were not comfortable with. I hope I get a chance to watch it soon, though I can imagine watching my self on t.v will be a very odd experience.

Kimberly
aka Luna

Comments

[arethinn]

Do you know why they apparently found it relevant to interview everyone's parents? I felt that doing so gave the impression that you all were to be considered still children who refuse to stop playing pretend and not adults.

[thepolywere.livejournal.com]

I actually thought the parents' reactions were one of the most interesting parts of the documentary. They showed that 'outsiders' are more concerned with how the belief will affect the individual as opposed to simly thinking they are crazy and rejecting the identity outright. I felt that only interviewing people under 25 or so is what gave an impression that everyone in the otherkin community is a kid.

[arethinn]

Mmm, I suppose that does contribute, although they probably weren't able to find any older therians or otherkin who were willing to appear. But what I mean is that for many things, if someone's an adult then their parents' opinion about whatever thing they may be doing is irrelevant: if this had been a documentary about these people's art, or doing something in science, or just about anything else, I doubt if they would have interviewed the parents and asked similar "so what do you think about your son being an artist/scientist, when did he start doing that?" sorts of questions.