The Breakdown

  • Original single-author voice from short-film expansion
  • Practical 16mm black-and-white cinematography
  • Adult family duty and unspoken pain as core
  • Respects conservative parents without caricature
  • Heavy on quiet tragedy, light on hope or redemption

Side Effects

quiet texas christmas dread, repressed hugs, tape-recorded goodbyes

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