13 minutes that'll make you call your mom and question reality itself.
El wakes to her Mother's voice and begins to see her body separating from herself, as through cascading visions of El’s past and future, she walks towards a memory of her Mother that seeps in from her dreams and calls her back into a place she is afraid to return to.
Direction
Hegge-Taylor turns 13 minutes into an eternity of unease.
Cinematography
Body separation sequences that'll live in your nightmares.
Acting
Joustra's silent dissolution is devastating.
Director
Sarah Hegge-Taylor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sarah Hegge-Taylor is an emerging Australian director whose work consistently explores queer bodies in spatial and temporal dislocation—this short premiered at SXSW 2025.
The title 'Pulp' evokes both organic matter and disposable media, mirroring how the film treats the body as something simultaneously sacred and violently rewritten.
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