Eleven minutes to destroy a marriage — and maybe your evening too.
After Daniel and his wife abort their child, Daniel realizes his misjudgment, and his suppressed grief and rage about their unborn child threatens their marriage.
Acting
Malinowski's contained rage simmers then combusts.
Direction
Bartz weaponizes silence and negative space.
Director
Sam Bartz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 11-minute runtime mirrors the average length of a couple's argument before escalation — Bartz deliberately constrained the narrative to biological stress response timing.
The film emerged from Bartz's MFA thesis exploring 'masculine grief taboos' — notably, Daniel never names the unborn child, while Jane does in the script's stage directions.
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