

16 minutes. One room. A daughter confessing death to a mother who can't answer back.
A woman attempts to explain to her vegetative mother the recent, sudden death of her sister.
Acting
Clare Mahoney's trembling monologue carries every frame.
Direction
Phillips traps you in the room with nowhere to look away.
Director
Jon Phillips
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The short's title refers to the craft connecting mother and daughters, with incomplete stitches mirroring interrupted lives.
Director Jon Phillips based this on his own experience explaining a family death to his grandmother with dementia.
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