SETMO
All I need
Writer and director Michael Dole and The Daughters bring All I Need to life with Set Mo — a film about the courage to find flow in a world that won't stop pulling us out of it. Self-perception. Distraction. Perspective. Human connection. The quiet ways we lose ourselves to screens, to attachments, to other people's versions of who we should be.
Flux is the spine of the work. A state of constant change. A cause to find creative flow, to live without attachment, to find rhythm inside our own life. Water carries it — the elemental thread through every frame. Liquid as flow. Liquid as emotion. Liquid as the force of life itself.
We meet our protagonist in a forest of low-fi fabric backdrops — a comment on the fragility of the world we've built around ourselves. She is distracted by a small old television. Another woman tries to reach her, standing just behind the screen, unseen. We follow her through mirrors propped in rainforests, through her own reflection in glass, through slow-motion moments of smashing the screen open — expelling herself from the addiction that holds her there. She runs. She dances. She is framed and unframed by fabric and timber, lost in her own distortion, then slowly found again. She wakes on a mattress at the water's edge, the tide rising to meet her, and gasps as if reborn.
A film about flux. About letting go. About finding the rhythm of yourself underneath everything that tries to drown it out.