Short film

Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear

2024 · 13 min

A quiet, unsettling short that blends mundane restaurant work with creeping supernatural dread and a quiet ache of displacement.

Overview: Jason Lu, a Hongkonger living in LA, works a shift at a restaurant and finds himself in a bizarre situation, and facing a deadly problem.
How it feels: Eerie, tense, melancholic and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Isolation, identity, fate, survival
Content: Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
identity
fate
survival
faith
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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