Hostages

An experimental short film exploring the passage of time

A woman and a man meet in a motel room to slow dance. She’s hurting and he’s very aware of that.

Ted and Matthew, a senior high school couple planning to move in together in college, film a comedy sketch for Ted's YouTube channel. Over the course of filming, their intimacy issues and future anxieties calcify and pierce through the silence in ways they could not have expected.

Constructed completely from archival sources, ‘THE MOVING MIRACLE’ considers the vast documentation of humanity in the digital age and ask the question of whether the image our archives leave behind will have us be remembered kindly. What is the point of the camera as a miracle machine if all it seems to do is witness atrocities?