What if you could lock your trauma in a locker? Would you?
A skeptical woman checks out an extraordinary storage facility where customers can literally compartmentalize their issues. A cowboy/salesman tries to get her to commit to a unit, but she’s hesitant. Her walk down suppressed-memory lane leaves her unaffected—until the last locker reveals a crossroads where there's no turning back.
Writing
Economical worldbuilding in five minutes, zero exposition dumps.
Direction
Rodriguez turns fluorescent lighting into existential horror.
Acting
The cowboy's honeyed menace deserves a feature.
Director
Eliaz Rodriguez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The short premiered at Fantastic Fest 2020, where programmers noted its eerie resonance with pandemic-era isolation and the sudden mainstream fascination with 'decluttering' as emotional labor.
The crossroads ending was shot in a real Texas storage facility at 3am; the flickering lights weren't scripted—Rodriguez kept rolling when the power fluctuated.
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