As an unpredictable, sweeping pandemic causes people to develop sudden amnesia, a man finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help him build a new life. His treatment: performing daily tasks prescribed by his doctors on cassette tape, and capturing those with a Polaroid camera.
Direction
Nikou's boxy 4:3 framing traps characters in their own lives.
Production
The analog tech aesthetic—cassettes, Polaroids—feels eerily timeless.
Acting
Servetalis's deadpan creates comedy from complete emptiness.
Director
Christos Nikou
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Nikou's feature debut; he previously assisted Yorgos Lanthimos on Dogtooth, and the DNA shows.
Shot in 2019, released during COVID—its pandemic premise accidentally became documentary-adjacent. The analog recovery program feels like a fever dream of lockdown hobbies gone institutional.
GR
