In this time of Covid 19, of quarantine and self isolation, USE ME takes on a bizarre complexion.

Intimacy is in disintegration and virtual sex and voyeurism are elevated to a standard of normalcy. Fetishism and addiction are being redefined.

In the privacy of your own house or device, you can immerse yourself in the faux documentary, salacious psychological thriller written, directed and starring Australian award-winning documentary filmmaker Julian Shaw.

Julian (as himself) travels to Portland, Oregon, in the United States to direct a documentary focusing on ‘mental humiliatrix’ Ceara Lynch (as herself). She dominates a new niche of online sex work and has made a fortune by humiliating men over the Internet without ever exposing her naked body or meeting them in person.

Her modus operandi can now be seen as a precursor of how the world conducts its business, online and through electronic financial transaction.

USE ME begins as a conventional documentary but quickly spirals into something else, where the lines of cinema verite blurr and blend into a mire of the manipulated and manufactured.

Ceara ensnares Julian in her fantasy world and he quickly develops romantic feelings for her. His newfound proximity reveals that, in her work, the line between illusion and reality isn’t as clear as she has led him to believe. As Julian digs deeper into his subject’s morally questionable professional life, he engineers a real-world encounter between Ceara and one of her clients.

This causes the universe to tilt and get disastrously out of kilter, where fact and fiction fracture causing a fission of potentially fatal fruition.

USE ME is a film about Capitalism and America as the land of opportunity. Some may see it as a film about the corruption of Capitalism and America as the land of opportunism. It cleverly inverts the documentary film, and in its subversion encapsulates its core subject.

USE ME is available to rent or buy on Apple TV, Fetch TV, Google Play and YouTube. Rated R