The story of three art-school grads realizing that their degrees and artistic ambitions haven't necessarily prepared them for the real world and putting themselves in positions to confirm that darkness and pain are necessary to produce great art.
Acting
Caras and Luccardi nail desperate performative intellectualism.
Writing
Dialogue so pretentious it loops back to brilliant satire.
Director
Michael Walker
Amy Hargreaves
Leslie Pierson
Josh Caras
Dan Pierson
Olivia Luccardi
Kelsey Frick
Austin Pendleton
Professor Jacob Winston
Daniel Bellomy
Austin Gamby
Paul Cooper
Quinn Donahue
Victor Verhaeghe
John Pierson
David Patrick Kelly
David Crays
Wakeema Hollis
Christina
Kate Stone
Chloe Brown
John Wollman
Gregory Buckland
Emrhys Cooper
Ramòn Crameri
Kaliswa Brewster
Claire Babchak
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Michael Walker filmed this guerrilla-style in actual Brooklyn art spaces, often without permits.
Released pre-pandemic, it accidentally predicted the 'recession-core' aesthetic of 2020-2021 where young creatives romanticized struggle.
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