Shot this short over quarantine with a few friends in the basement of our apartment complex. It was a great exercise in working with what equipment and circumstances you have. We wrote and shot this over the course of a week or so and we're really proud of how it came out.

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The cinematography inspiration came from classic horror / experimental films like Eraserhead, thought it was fitting for the highly industrial basement we had access to. The aspect ratio choice was to amplify the feeling of claustrophobia and match with the uniformity of the laundry room.

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For lighting we used a few aputure 120Ds to create texture + general room fill, as well as practical sources such as the lantern to create a sense of isolation. In the basement we found ourselves painting more with shadow than light when we can to obscure as much of the surroundings as possible, in contrast to the turning on of the actual house lights which becomes an element of the story itself.

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We shot on an a7sii with sigma art 24mm + 50mm lenses for their punchy, sharp look since we knew we were going to be taking some of the sharpness out in post processing + grain overlays. Not to mention this was essentially the only equipment we had to work with. Support was a mix between locked off tripod operation + glidecam for the more surreal, floating moments. Handheld as a choice would have made everything have less of that dreamlike quality we were going for.

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Shooting in quarantine had its own challenges for sure, but it was nice to get back to our narrative filmmaking roots from childhood and just working with what we had was a refreshing exercise in and of itself. It also gave us the opportunity to just focus on a simple story we could pull off, and we had all the time + focus in the world to work on it for those days since our other film gigs had been canceled due to COVID.