The ghost in your console isn't a glitch—it's love, still racing ahead of you.
Inspired by a YouTube comment from user 00WARTHERAPY00, this touching short film tells the story of a son playing his old Xbox console for the first time years after his father’s death— chasing his father’s ghost in the racing video game Rally Sport Challenge
Direction
Wikstrom turns 2 minutes into eternity
Production
Real Xbox footage, real ache, zero budget
Writing
One YouTube comment → devastating poetry
Director
John Wikstrom
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Born from a real Reddit comment by 00WARTHERAPY00 about finding his late father's ghost laps in Rally Sport Challenge—Wikstrom literally DM'd a stranger to make art.
Microsoft eventually acknowledged the short, but the original Xbox servers had already shut down—making the real ghost laps truly gone forever.
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