Six minutes. One breath. Your nervous system will thank you later.
Like the ebbs and flows of waves in the ocean, a woman rides out different stages of an anxiety attack and through memory and space regains control and relief.
Direction
Gee's spatial poetry turns panic into geography.
Cinematography
Movement-as-memory—waves as both threat and release.
Acting
Baldwin's physicality speaks where dialogue would fail.
Director
Natalie Gee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gee developed this through her own panic disorder, filming Baldwin during actual regulated breathing exercises rather than simulated distress.
Premiered at Sundance's 2021 virtual edition, where viewers reported physical sympathetic responses—racing hearts, then slowed breathing—across isolated home viewing environments.
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