A mysterious notebook and a phone conversation with his mom send a reclusive neuroscientist down a surreal path of discovery.
Acting
Sridharan's unraveling in under seven minutes is genuinely unsettling
Direction
Schultz packs a feature's worth of disorientation into 420 seconds
Editing
Cuts that make you doubt what you just saw—intentionally, brilliantly
Director
Eric Schultz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Schultz shot this during a single overnight session with borrowed equipment after a larger project fell through.
The film's structure mirrors the 'rehearsal' phenomenon in anxiety disorders, where imagined conversations feel indistinguishable from real ones.
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