A sister grows fur like grief—soft, strange, and impossible to touch.
A girl pursues a connection with her sister, who is covered by a strange grey fur. It is soft and uncanny at the same time. It grows between them, and they drift further apart from each other.
Cinematography
Grey fur rendered with tactile, almost unbearable intimacy.
Direction
Homan turns 5 minutes into a lifetime of missed connections.
Sound
Silence so loud you hear the fur growing.
Director
Madeleine Homan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Madeleine Homan based the fur imagery on interviews with siblings of those battling depression, who described loved ones becoming 'unrecognizable yet still there.'
Premiered at Annecy 2022, where programmers noted its resonance with post-pandemic stories of proximity without intimacy—family you couldn't reach despite being in the same room.
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