You Know Where To Find Me
2023 · 20m · USA
Directed by Sam Davis
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
A 23-year-old man with intellectual disabilities named Frankie moves into his own apartment for the first time after living with his mother; the excitement of newfound independence gives way to tender homesickness as evening falls and he misses her.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Improvised portrait of a young man with intellectual disabilities moving out — the discovery of the answering machine scene in post is the kind of accident that proves the method. Solid.
Sam Davis builds the structure in the edit rather than the script — and the answering-machine scene that surprised the crew in post is precisely the kind of emergent moment that vindicates improvisational method. Tender and serious.
Twenty minutes almost entirely improvised, with the structure determined in editing rather than pre-planned, and an answering-machine scene that emerged substantially in post — that improvisational-then-editorial process is exactly how documentary-fiction hybrids find unexpected emotional weight. Grayson Deeney carrying it with intellectual disability authenticity at 125K views is the right scale of attention.
Reviews
Grayson Deeney, in his first on screen appearance, is mesmerizing, bringing his character, and all his inner feelings, to the screen with deeply touching sensitivity.
Moving out of the family home and into your own place is one of the most universal experiences in the process of growing up and becoming an adult... [the film's] shooting, editing and casting lends it a heightened quality of truth and authenticity.
Festivals
- Palm Springs ShortFest 2023