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XY

2025 · 12 min

A quiet, bleak slice of life that lingers on loneliness and quiet desperation, hard to shake off.

Directed by
Stephen Fleet
Overview
The story of a repressed convenience store clerk named Y and a trans cam girl named X whose lives tragically intersect at a bleak strip mall in today’s America.
How it feels
Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About
Isolation, identity, loneliness, class
Content
Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
Note
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Directed by
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    Places
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror2
    Humour1
    Realism8
    Romance1
    Tension5
    Darkness7
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight7

    Cast

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    Details

    Directed by
    Stephen Fleet
    Starring
    Ray Buffer, Dominic Burgess, Vince Hill-Bedford, George Todd McLachlan, JL Perkel
    Runtime
    12 min
    Country
    United States of America
    Languages
    English

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