Eight minutes. One nightmare. Zero escape from the monsters that follow you awake.
Struggling with the pressures of homophobia when her partner is taken away by a hateful mother, a young gay woman struggles to cope with the traumas and anxieties of her life. Her dreams descend, taking the shape of shadows which reach into her life.
Direction
Prentice stretches 8 minutes into infinite dread.
Sound
Audio design that crawls inside your chest.
Practical Effects
Shadow creatures that cost nothing but haunt everything.
Director
Luke Prentice
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot over a single weekend with borrowed equipment; the shadow effects were created with a bedsheet and a desk lamp.
Circulated primarily through LGBTQ+ film festivals in 2016-2017, rarely screened since—preserved mostly through bootleg Vimeo uploads that commenters call 'too real at 3am.'
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