Six minutes to watch someone unravel. Your anxiety called—it wants royalties.
It's tomorrow. The event is coming. Until then, the torments imposed by his subconscious exhaust him more and more.
Direction
Capovilla directs himself into genuine psychological distress.
Editing
Six minutes feel like suffocation—intentionally, brilliantly.
Director
Guillaume Capovilla
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The French title 'Que j'expire' translates to 'May I expire'—a plea, not a statement, suggesting the protagonist is begging for release from his own anticipation.
Capovilla belongs to a wave of micro-budget French horror directors using extreme brevity as aesthetic constraint, following the success of 2019's 'The Staggering Girl' (though that had Gucci money).
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