As a young filmmaker who suffers from OCD, Lucas struggles with finishing his synopsis for a film that he had always dreamt of making. Despite his ambitions, Lucas can't seem to gather his thoughts and he worries that his work will not be the perfection that he undoubtedly desires. With overwhelming emotions and a lack of self-confidence, Lucas finds himself trapped in his own mind where he desires everything to go as planned but is instead faced with his fears and an altered reality that his mind presents to him.
Direction
Two directors playing Lucas AND his tormentors? Unhinged genius.
Editing
Rapid-fire loop cuts that physically stress you out.
Acting
Foeillet's spiral from hope to hollow-eyed desperation.
Director
Noa Foeillet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The directors literally cast themselves as Lucas's tormentors, blurring creator and critic in the ultimate self-own.
Emerges from a wave of pandemic-era micro-shorts exploring mental health through genre—this one predates most but feels eerily prescient about isolation spirals.
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