Eight minutes to break your heart and mend it back crooked.
The monotony of college life traps Murphey into disillusionment and apathy. She can't feel anything and can't figure out why until a phone call with her mother reminds her that there is life beyond school and that happiness is possible even when it has never felt further away.
Acting
Kunz's dead eyes say what the script never does.
Direction
Litty makes 8 minutes feel like a whole semester of dread.
Director
Madeline Litty
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Madeline Litty shot this as her senior thesis at Ohio University, casting her actual roommate Anna Kunz after watching her dissociate through finals week.
The title's Boomtown Rats reference isn't just cute—it's generational commentary on how depression gets meme'd into meaninglessness while remaining unbearably real.
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