Short film

Desert Palms

2026 · 32 min

A wry, claustrophobic waiting-room mosaic that traps you in the crowd's restless ache and small absurdities.

Overview: Set inside a hospital waiting room across the street from a hectic outdoor music festival, Desert Palms is a single-take live action immersive film that follows a throng of injured characters as they wait to be seen by an extremely slow and overwhelmed ER facility.
How it feels: Absurd, satirical, tense and warm. Measured and demanding.
About: Survival, isolation, class, work
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: absurdstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
isolation
class
work
healing
Places: hospital
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild