

Twelve minutes of skin-crawling motherhood that'll have you checking under every rock.
Struggling with adoption a young girl finds solace in the creepy crawly world under the rocks.
Sound
Crackling, skittering audio design that crawls inside your ears.
Direction
Paul James packs a feature's worth of dread into twelve minutes.
Director
Paul James
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Heather Bolton recorded her voice performance separately, never meeting Tim Carlsen during production—adding accidental isolation to June's character.
Premiered at NZIFF 2018, part of a wave of Kiwi shorts exploring systemic failure through genre lens; often paired with horror features to destroy audience composure.