January (2014)

38 minutes // Color

Synopsis: A young man loses his job and tries to stay productive.

  • “Hints of transcendence that hover in mid-air. Dreams of escape and the entrapments of routine. In JANUARY, life as it’s lived etches the contour of a life unlived, and this friction between two adjacent lives is what jolts the film into (subtle) action. Static frames belie an animating force, indeterminate yet unmistakable, leaving an overall sense not of stasis but cautious, soft-spoken confidence.” – Post1000Tension
  • “That phone conversation is so real, it might be one of my favorite film phone conversations that I’ve seen.” – Jaime Grijalba
  • “The opening is disorienting–the restless, shaky camera, resting only briefly on contextual clues–and I like how that movement and the agitation of it contrasts to the relative stillness and depressive inertia of what follows.” – Melissa Tamminga

Watch the film https://vimeo.com/476372714