

Eight minutes to save the world, and the librarian's not lending shit.
A young rock and roller seeks a mystical artifact to save the world from an ancient evil, but the mysterious librarian who owns it has other plans.
Practical Effects
Armor design that punches above budget weight
Acting
Leah Lewis commits completely to chaos
Direction
Gould crams a trilogy's worth of lore into eight minutes
Director
Mitch Gould
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mitch Gould reportedly shot this over a single weekend with volunteer crew and borrowed equipment.
The 'ancient evil + reluctant guardian' structure directly mirrors 1980s fantasy paperbacks that promised epic trilogies in 300 pages—here compressed to YouTube-short length.