Short film
Hollow Ground
2025 · 12 min
A quiet, downbeat short that sits with a lonely kid's frustration and the strain inside a struggling household.
- Directed by
- Jeff Lichtenstein
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Aven Campau, Luis Galilei, Frank Muni
- Overview
- At its core, Hollow Ground is a film during the 2009 U.S. recession about toxic masculinity and its impact on a broken family. Michael, our 14-year-old protagonist, enters the film as a lonely teenager who finds solace in talking trash to other gamers on XBox.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Family, isolation, coming-of-age, class
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Jeff Lichtenstein
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Aven Campau, Luis Galilei, Frank Muni
