

Seven minutes of gay panic and cardboard — the most stressful unboxing video ever made.
"Unboxing" chronicles the journey of one college student as she picks up suspicious packages from her campus mail center. While her friends ponder her project in bewilderment and Alice fights tooth and nail to get these boxes back to her dorm, everyone is dying to know: what's in the box?
Acting
Oona Hollister-Stanton's escalating panic is hilariously relatable.
Writing
Economic storytelling — every second earns its keep.

Director
Vanessa Ellis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed at Smith College, one of the Seven Sisters and historically women's colleges — the specific campus geography matters.
The 'unboxing' format inverts YouTube culture: here the mystery isn't for an audience, it's desperately private.