Prettybird director Sindha Agha has depicted the female experience of painful sex as part of a visceral visual essay series for BBC Three.Created as part of the online channel’s ‘Body Language’ series, Agha’s film contrasts a feminine pastel palette against the painful imagery of broken glass and glinting knives. The film is narrated by the words of sufferer Rhoda Hierons, who compares the pain of sex as “glass shattering inside you and embedding itself”.Agha’s visuals include honey being dripped into a hand-blown glass vase, a Jenga tower made from pink wafers and a mango filled with cut-up straws.CreditsThe Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Navi Lamba.Director – SINDHA AGHAProduction – PRETTYBIRDProducer – PAULETTE CALETTIExecutive Producer – JULIETTE LARTHEHead of Production – HANNAH MAYDirector of Photography – NEUS OLLÉ st
Digital Image Technician – EWAN MACFARLAN
Gaffer – JOSIE WILLIAMS
Art Director – HAYLEY MCDONALD
Art Department Assistant – LOIS TAGG
Editor – ELLIE MCNAUGHTAN​
Offline Producer – ELLA SEDGWICK at WORK POST
Sound Recordist & Designer – HELEN MILES
Colourist – JESSICA VILE
Flame Artist – KATIE RHODES
Post-Production Producer – HANNAH OLIVER at FRAMESTORE​
Casting Director - MAXINE LANKITUS-DUNKLEY at ATMOSPHERE FACESAssistant Camera – MARK SWAFFIELDFilmed at CLAPHAM ROAD STUDIOSCONTRIBUTORS/INTERVIEWEES:Painful Sex – RHONDA HIERONS Endometriosis – ANAIS THORN
Antenatal Depression – PIPPA JOHNSON-KAPPEarly Menopause – DIANE DANZEBRINK