A journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings.
Direction
Seftel lets rooms speak louder than words ever could.
Cinematography
Stillness as elegy—every empty bed a grave.
Director
Joshua Seftel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Meryl Hartman is Steve's daughter and a student journalist herself; the project began as her idea after Uvalde.
The 'empty chair' protest tradition at congressional hearings directly inspired the visual approach; Seftel studied courtroom artists who capture absence.
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