12 minutes. One apartment hunt. A childhood ending in real time.
Over the course of a day, 12-year-old Agnes goes apartment hunting in Brooklyn with her dad Peter, and struggles to come to terms with her parents’ separation.
Acting
Zoe Ziegler's silent reactions say everything the script doesn't.
Direction
Beatrix Chu turns apartment tours into emotional minefields.
Cinematography
Brooklyn's cramped spaces mirror a shrinking family.
Director
Beatrix Chu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of post-pandemic shorts exploring housing instability and fractured families, shot during the 2023 NYC rental crisis.
Chu based the script on her own childhood apartment hunts, filming in her actual former neighborhood of Crown Heights.
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