Ten minutes. One rating. Zero comfort. This short film doesn't want you to look away.
A look at the normalization of violence through footage depicting scenes that are representative of the subject matter, while a typical story of abuse unfolds, this one can only have an disturbing ending.
Direction
Murguía weaponizes the short format like a gut punch.
Editing
Juxtaposition of 'representative footage' that implicates the viewer.
Director
Aarón Murguía
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's structural DNA echoes Gus Van Sant's 'Elephant' and the 'found footage' ethics of 'Faces of Death'—but updated for TikTok-era desensitization.
Murguía reportedly shot this as his thesis film, which explains the academic ruthlessness—he's not entertaining you, he's submitting evidence.
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