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“You poor creature… have you nowhere to go? No one to love you? You poor creature… will anyone miss you?”  When these words are uttered in Brendan Prost’s new short film, Heavy Petting, the viewer thinks they understand. They believe they’re hearing a woman project her own emotions onto another; they trust that these words are a wounded person’s attempt to deny the severity of their own condition. And to some extent, this is true — but that’s not the point of this film. The point is to highlight the horrifying ways in which it’s not.Heavy Petting begins with the story of Marina (Haley Midgette), a woman who has recently lost her beloved pet cat. We see her searching hopelessly around her neighbourhood, to no avail. She looks drab at a banal work meeting, and lost in her now companionless home, attempting to fill the void of loneliness with masturbation. Each new frame communicates a grim, inescapable sense of l

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