What if grief made you speak in tongue twisters? This 8-minute fever dream goes there.
A horrific schoolroom accident involving Mr Jones' son sparks a most unusual case of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Acting
Damon Herriman commits fully to linguistic breakdown.
Writing
Tongue twisters as emotional architecture — deranged genius.
Director
Craig Melville
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film weaponizes the 'she sells seashells' tongue twister as a literal symptom of PTSD, turning speech therapy into psychological horror.
Director Craig Melville and star Damon Herriman collaborated multiple times; this short predates Herriman's breakout US roles in Justified and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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