Nine minutes. One jacket. Your entire emotional state: ruined.
A boy meets a girl. It could be love. But there is this jacket, too. And the jacket will change everything...
Direction
Vollrath compresses a lifetime into nine minutes.
Acting
Binder and Rupp build entire relationship in glances.
Editing
Ruthless cuts that refuse to let you breathe.
Director
Patrick Vollrath
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vollrath made this before his Oscar-nominated short 'Everything Will Be Okay'—both explore how ordinary moments detonate into tragedy.
The jacket functions as Chekhov's gun in clothing form: introduced casually, paid off catastrophically. The 9-minute runtime makes its destruction feel almost violent in its compression.
DE
AT
