A 30-minute fever dream where eviction notices meet Cold War trauma and swimming pool meet-cutes.
In an isolated world, one man pursues the woman of his dreams. Alone reveals the story of Peter Shipke, a quiet man with a haunted past who earns his living evicting tenants from their New York apartments. It's a satisfying job until he meets the beautiful Anya. She literally dives into his life at the local pool and becomes the focus of his fantasies. But when reality comes knocking at his door, Peter is forced to choose between the woman he loves and the job he can't escape.
Acting
Dobell's haunted stillness carries decades of unspoken history.
Direction
Orr packs a feature's worth of ambiguity into 30 minutes.
Production
Berlin Wall imagery on a shoestring that somehow works.
Director
Gregory Orr
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on 35mm film despite micro-budget constraints, giving its dream sequences an uncanny texture digital couldn't replicate.
The casting of Ana Anensio—then an unknown—was deliberate; her unfamiliar face makes Anya's 'too good to be true' quality viscerally effective.
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