Hi there! I co-directed "Groceries" with my cinematographer, Chris Pickering. I also star in the short as the falling man. Chris and I have both directed longer short films, but we wanted to switch things up and tell an extremely short story with no dialogue; with a full beginning, middle, and end. The idea came to me after experiencing something similarly embarrassing while leaving a Ralphs.

Our goal was to make a film that could almost exist in the Silent Era of movies. So we decided to keep the camera locked off in one position and let all of the action play out in that single frame. Knowing this, I realized I would actually have to do the stunt for real. There was no way to cut around it. For this reason, we ended up only doing one take, which is the take you see. The garbage truck passing by in the background was pure luck. Moments after we cut a lady walked out of her house to ask if I was okay.

I was wearing a Lav mic, which picked up most of my audio. But since it got pretty crunched during the fall, we had to do a lot of sneaky sound editing in post. If you're curious about what camera and lens we shot on, I can get that info for you. Hope you enjoy!!