Your childhood home is being bulldozed. What do you save in 8 minutes?
A hand-painted stop-motion elegy that traces the erasure of a family home by eminent domain, accompanied by a soundscape drawn from archival family VHS recordings.
Cinematography
Every frame hand-painted — you can feel the artist's fingerprints.
Sound
VHS artifacts become ghosts, crackling with lost conversations.
Practical Effects
Stop-motion labor of love — no shortcuts, all heartbreak.
Director
Jason Mitcham
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mitcham spent three years painting frames while his own family home faced foreclosure, blurring documentary and fiction.
Part of a wave of 'slow animation' resisting AI generation — every imperfection is political.
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