In the documentary Groomed, Gwen van de Pas reconfigures the psychological fragments of grooming through her own story of childhood sexual abuse
It wasn’t until she was knee-deep in research, making a documentary on sexual assault that would later become the film Groomed, that the film-maker Gwen van de Pas learned the word for what happened to her.
Van de Pas had scaled back her consulting job in San Francisco in January 2016 to make a film about sexual assault, informed by but not centered on her experience of sexual abuse in the late 90s, as a 12-13-year-old, by an adult coach, then in his mid-20s, on her swim team. For years, van de Pas struggled to find certainty in her story: his attention had made her feel special then; now it haunted her. The nightmares left her in tears, but if she hadn’t been afraid at the time, was it not scary? If he wasn’t a bad guy in her memories, could his inappropriate, confusing sexualization of their relationship be a bad thing? Continue reading...
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