Bite

Bite, a short film directed by Nisma Qureshi, focuses on hunger, mental illness, disease, and the struggles of anorexia nervosa. It centers on a young girl, played by Nisma Qureshi, trapped in a room with bare white walls and supported only by an air mattress beneath a pink floral quilt. She is consistently dressed in a floral babydoll dress with light pink ballet flats. The girl’s sole nourishment is an apple, which clearly does not sustain her. The Disease, played by Camryn Halfaker, forcibly wraps her in plastic wrap. Eventually the cycle displayed through the apple starts again, never awarding the young girl peace.