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In these three short films, we examine key issues in the American cultural conversation—incarceration, race, life, death, digital culture, gender—through a distorted lens. They may be fictional, but these dizzying one-take videos do have the ring of truth.
Directed by Jim Cummings

Joseph Lee Anderson
Garrett (segment "It’s All Right, It’s OK")

Hannah Elder
Hannah (segment "Hydrangea")

David Henry Gerson
David (segment "Hydrangea")

Jim Cummings
Jim (segment "The Mountains of Mourne")

Casey Thomas Brown
Jordan (segment "The Mountains of Mourne")
A Very Slow Breakfast
2003