318 minutes of academic pressure cooker that'll make you rethink every professor crush you ever had.
On the eve of the nation's pandemic shutdown, university students grapple with an unconventional prompt at the behest of an infamous professor. In working through their projects, each student is forced to examine the role they have come to play and what is expected of them. Their revelations are woven into the fabric of their work and send shock waves through each of their personal lives.
Acting
Ward's professor is terrifyingly committed to the bit.
Direction
Kross treats runtime as feature, not bug—immersive by design.
Director
Kayden Kross
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kross shot this March 2020, literally days before California lockdown—the empty campus is documentary, not production design.
Ward's casting subverts her own public trajectory from Disney star to adult performer—layers the professor's authority with uncomfortable meta-commentary on manufactured image.
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