The Snip
The blurb: Tony and Lindsay are looking for a permanent solution to their family’s fertility, but for Tony, the simple procedure poses a threat to his fragile masculinity.
This short film had me laughing out loud at it’s clever one liners and fun imagery. While it’s sympathetic to the hesitations many men have about vasectomy, it also depicts the way women still carry most of the contraceptive burden.
Director Ben Hyland told Short of the Week:
“As a man with children who no longer wanted further offspring, the decision to get a vasectomy had become part of the conversation in my marriage,” Hyland candidly explains when discussing the origins of the film. Through conversations with friends in similar situations, he discovered many shared the same vague yet persistent anxieties surrounding sex and the procedure itself. As he puts it: “The concept of masculinity was very much tied to the act of procreation. So I wanted to explore that both within myself and within the film.”
Length: 10:12
Director: Ben S. Hyland
Year: 2023
Here’s his website.