Six minutes to decide if a man deserves the air he's breathing.
At a parole board hearing, James Carter asks for a freedom he is not certain that he deserves.
Acting
Fedele's trembling restraint in a single sustained shot.
Direction
Markowitz and Stampfel weaponize the unseen.
Director
Debra Markowitz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Short film parole board scenes rarely grant the prisoner interiority; this one makes Carter's uncertainty the entire architecture.
Released amid 2023's prison reform discourse, its timing weaponizes brevity against systemic sprawl.
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