14 minutes. One haircut. Trauma you can't unsee.
Acting
Sequoyah and Brown communicate entire histories without speaking.
Direction
Pike trusts the audience to read what's unsaid.
Cinematography
The haircut sequence: intimate, invasive, unforgettable.
Director
Kelly Pike
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pike based the film on interviews with survivors who described ritualized bodily changes—tattoos, piercings, haircuts—as attempts to reclaim narrative control.
The entire haircut was filmed in one continuous take; Sequoyah's terror is genuine—she didn't know when Brown would stop.
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