SCAPETRACE has been an entity on the Internet since 2016 and I still feel like I haven't properly introduced myself. My name is Oliver Scapetrace and I'm a 22-year-old out of England, United Kingdom. I am an artist, a photographer, a videographer. Like many others before and as well as me I use creativity to heal. I've spent a lot of my life in agonising pain due to the past 22 years of it and, to put it really simply, not experiencing enough LOVE. Healthy LOVE. Which is why I LOVE people. That's ME and YOU. I LOVE people in a way that it's really hard because some people let the pain win and become toxic. I'm making an effort to heal that too, in trying to heal myself, I hope you try to heal you. I know what I did and I hold myself fully accountable. I live with a lot of guilt and all I can say is I hope you can find it to forgive me. Not for my sake, but for yours. I'm making an effort to be vulnerable to show myself that despite the fact that it terrifies me to do so, it's what I must do. I'm tired of living in fear. If you dislike me, that's okay, I understand. But if you do like me or anything I do, I love you too. I've only just begun to share these films with the internet recently and yet the response has been overwhelming and I'd like to wholeheartedly thank you for supporting SCAPETRACE. I hope my stories continue to resonate with you. Despite the pain nearly winning several times which led to me planning to end my own life, I continue regardless. There's this overwhelming urge telling me I still have things to do with my time in the Universe and I fully believe that this is it. I've had to endure years of abuse and unfair treatment for the majority of my life. I'm not looking for pity, this is just what I need to say because if I don't get it out it will stay within me forever and slowly end me anyway. And one day I will share all of these stories with you, but I can't at present because it is not safe for me to do so. I need to escape yet the path to freedom seems near impossible, yet I know it isn't. So please LOVE. LOVE is the thing. LOVE is what we need. Thank you. #shortfilm #film #filmmaking #filmmaker #cinematography #scapetrace