Your car picks up a stranger. Your marriage picks up the pieces.
A married man finds a young woman asleep in his self-driving car and decides to drive her home. When he lets her have a go at driving it, a moment of intimacy turns sour.
Acting
Graves and Runeckles nail excruciating micro-moments
Direction
Outram weaponizes the car's claustrophobic space
Director
Daniel Outram
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 16-minute runtime mirrors a Tinder date: brief, loaded with misread signals, permanently altering.
Released as autonomous vehicles entered mainstream discourse, using the tech as metaphor for abdicated agency — in cars and relationships.
US
