Four minutes of classroom chaos that'll make you sweat through your school uniform.
Jordan recounts a tense day where a false accusation by his teacher, Miss Rudell, pushes him to his breaking point, exposing the unfair dynamics between him, the teacher’s pet, and an undisciplined peer.
Acting
Alex McLay's simmering frustration is uncomfortably real.
Direction
Callaghan crams a feature's worth of tension into four minutes.
Editing
Rapid cuts mirror Jordan's spiraling mental state.
Director
Joshua Callaghan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The faux-documentary style cleverly weaponizes unreliable narration—we're forced to question if Jordan is a victim or an unreliable narrator protecting his own ego.
Director Joshua Callaghan reportedly based this on his own secondary school experience, explaining the excruciating specificity of classroom power dynamics.
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