Twelve minutes that'll wreck your whole week. First crushes hit different when guns are involved.
A rumination on the dangers of first crushes, the weight of clean guns and the habits of sea cucumbers.
Acting
Ben Foster's restless physicality says everything words won't.
Direction
Silas Howard squeezes a lifetime of longing into twelve minutes.
Cinematography
Claustrophobic framing that makes you want to escape and stay.
Director
Silas Howard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Silas Howard was founding member of queer punk band Tribe 8, bringing that scene's raw intimacy to film.
The sea cucumber speech isn't just random biology — it's AJ's entire worldview about survival through stillness, which collapses by the end.
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