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Idea

2022 · 40 min

A quiet, talky chamber piece that unfolds in video-call intimacy, asking you to sit with the ache of trying to make a life add up.

Directed by
Michelle Tattenbaum
Starring
Erin Gann, Alexandra Curran, Lambert Tamin
Overview
When a harried teaching assistant holds a series of online meetings with his students about their personal essays, his attempts to help them find meaning in their life stories gradually forces him to question the meaning of his own. A short film about the impossibility of making sense of what happens to us...and the necessity of trying to do it anyway.

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Directed by
Michelle Tattenbaum
Starring
Erin Gann, Alexandra Curran, Lambert Tamin
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • memory
  • isolation
  • work
  • education
Places
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Directed by
Michelle Tattenbaum
Written by
Itamar Moses
Starring
Erin Gann, Alexandra Curran, Lambert Tamin, Erika Rolfsrud, Layla Khoshnoudi, Kane Koichi
Runtime
40 min

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