Eight minutes that'll wreck your whole day (in the best way).
A poetically fractured meditation about a woman trying to stay connected to herself and her young children as her marriage dissolves.
Direction
Chavkin's theatrical precision in micro-doses.
Acting
Megan Ketch's face does impossible heavy lifting.
Editing
Fractured timeline that mirrors dissociation.
Director
Rachel Chavkin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rachel Chavkin brought her Tony-winning Hadestown sensibility to this tiny canvas—same interest in mythic ordinary moments, now stripped of music.
The 8-minute runtime was non-negotiable—Chavkin wanted the exact length of a cigarette break, that liminal space where people let themselves feel.
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