An offbeat, wryly humorous look at the dilemma of a would-be suicide unable to find the right outfit to die in, examines the personal habits, socialization, and complexities of life that keep us going.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp it cuts through nine minutes like nothing.
Direction
Woods directs herself with brutal, unflinching intimacy.
Director
Fronza Woods
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the earliest known short films by a Black woman director, made for $350 while Woods was a student at NYU. It vanished for decades before restoration.
The title's double meaning—killing time until death, and how time itself becomes the killer—only fully lands on rewatch. The outfit procrastination is the plot, but time is the antagonist.
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