Short film

Briar

5 min

A claustrophobic, unsettling plunge into grief and madness, where home feels like a trap and every moment weighs heavily.

Overview: Home becomes purgatory for a grieving and murderous filmmaker during a global pandemic.
How it feels: Dark, bleak, tense and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Grief, isolation, madness, death
Content: Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
isolation
madness
death
guilt
Places: home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none