

After the death of his mother, Ian must pack up the family home. A strained relationship between him and his sister leads Ian to discover there are complicated circumstances behind the life he didn't realize he was living.
Acting
Berchtold's unraveling — you watch a man realize he's been performing grief.
Direction
Hazart lets silences do the screaming. Brutal restraint.
Production
The house itself: curated nostalgia that slowly feels like a set.

Director
hazart
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's double meaning: the 'hard problem' of consciousness AND the difficulty of being human when your emotions are outsourced.
Hazart shot the childhood flashbacks on actual VHS to create authentic compression artifacts — the 'memory' looks real because it *is* degraded.