For the Rabbits
2020 · 10m · USA
Directed by Lincoln Robisch
Genres: drama
A high school actor tries to quietly remove his disabled sister from the audience after she begins shouting his name mid-performance. A student short built around one ambitious continuous take.
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A student one-taker about disability and embarrassment that could have been preachy and instead just stages the moment. The restraint is more interesting than another stylized monologue.
A miniature Birdman staged at a school play, with all the swagger surgically removed — Robisch's one-take ambition is real, but the subject matter sits uneasy under student-project sincerity. I'd want to see the next one.
One-take staging built around a fraught family interruption — a high school actor trying to silently extract his shouting sister — is exactly the kind of ambitious mechanical-emotional bind that student shorts attempt. The page summary's tone signals respect for the subject, not exploitation.