Bex
2026 · 9m · Canada
Directed by Wiley Kaupas
Genres: documentary
Tones: contemplative, tender
Bex Clayman, a graduate student who has fallen behind in life, relocates from Brooklyn to Denver and returns to school in an attempt to heal childhood scars rooted in mental illness.
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Kaupas resists the documentary impulse to dramatize mental health recovery — the camera stays close to the logistical texture of starting over.
A mental-health recovery doc about "the mundane choreography of relocation" — eight minutes of a grad student moving to Denver. The Minding the Gap comparison is preposterous. This is a sponsored brand reel pretending to be intimacy.
Kaupas frames mental health recovery through the mundane choreography of relocation rather than crisis — a quietly humane gesture in the Minding the Gap tradition. Slim runtime, but honest.