Outside
2013 · 10m · USA
Directed by Zach Fleming
Tones: contemplative, dark, melancholic
A young woman with a rare disorder is confined to a dark house, where the rules of the outside world warp in her absence.
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2013 feels like ancient history now, which is exactly why a confinement film from that vintage is suddenly interesting again. Fleming was making lockdown cinema before lockdown was content.
Pre-pandemic isolation portrait in a single shuttered room — the early-Jennifer-Reeder dread mode in miniature is interesting, but the page tells me very little to confirm execution.
Pre-pandemic isolation portrait that reads differently in hindsight — confined character study from 2013 is a real ask of the form. The page summary is thin so I'm being conservative here.