15 minutes to break your heart — summer love has never felt this real.
Riley (16), often elated by the subtlest moments and feelings in life, begins dating his presumed first love, Orbit (16) in the sapid summer of 2017, but soon enters emotional turmoil in the wake of receiving skewed signals from Orbit - presumably prompted by her post-breakup mourning.
Cinematography
Golden-hour skating sequences that ache with possibility.
Acting
Adeloye's micro-expressions devastate without a word.
Direction
Brooks captures how first love feels enormous and fragile.
Director
Jovan Brooks
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brooks intentionally set this in 2017 to capture a specific pre-pandemic teenage summer, when touch felt uncomplicated.
The skating community backdrop isn't aesthetic dressing — Brooks wanted black joy and movement as resistance to the 'trauma porn' often expected of black teen stories.
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