What if your perfect clone could live your life while you ghost everyone?
In the midst of Will's withering confidence, his fiancee Audrey starts to slip from his finger tips. When Ephemeral Solutions scientists reveal the creation of "Proxys", clones of oneself that are the definition of "perfection", Will seeks to be cloned so that he can run away from all of his worries and self-doubts.
Direction
Valcich packs a feature's worth of dread into 13 minutes.
Acting
White's crumbling confidence is physically painful to watch.
Director
Jeptha Valcich
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Valcich's thesis film at USC, shot on a shoestring budget that makes its polish almost insulting to other student filmmakers.
The 'proxy' concept deliberately mirrors how social media lets us curate 'better versions' of ourselves while the real person deteriorates.
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