A 15-minute gut-punch about a broken man and his wooden friends. You'll never look at puppets the same.
A 70-something puppeteer struggling to come to terms with a breakup puts on the most heartbreakingly personal show of his life to an audience of strangers. Writer/director Andrew Fuchs (HEY STRANGER), with his remarkable lead Joseph Lopez, have made one of the most haunting films this side of oblivion, a depiction of trauma and grief processed through art that will suck the breath from your lungs.
Acting
Lopez embodies collapse without a single false note.
Direction
Fuchs makes 15 minutes feel like a lifetime of regret.
Writing
Every word earned; no exposition, just excavation.
Director
Andrew Fuchs
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fuchs previously explored stranger intimacy in HEY STRANGER—here he weaponizes it, making the audience complicit voyeurs to breakdown.
Part of a micro-wave of 'puppet trauma' shorts (see: Anomalisa's shadow, Kaufman's legacy) using artificial bodies to expose real wounds.
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