Short film · 2024
Detach
- Role
- Grip · Slate
- Director
- Steven
- Production
- House Vindicus Company
Approach
Keep the audience as unsure as he is: a cramped apartment, a cold winter forest, and a dummy that looks a little too alive.
Detach is a psychological thriller about a ventriloquist who is losing his grip on reality. He becomes convinced his dummy is alive, and it ends with him killing it and burying it in the woods like a body, when it was only ever a dummy.
As grip, I built out the sets, kept every piece of equipment charged, and slated each take. With a crew of just five, everyone covered more than one job, and we shot the whole film in two days.
We filmed in Inglewood, in Los Angeles: an apartment for his unraveling, and a forest for the burial. We shot in the middle of winter, so the woods were cold even for LA, but the cold never slowed us down. The team came away with some of the strongest performance shots I've been part of.
- Release
- Submitted to film festivals.
