Getting Out of the Mud
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10-Apr-2023
Intro by director Oliver Shahery: This is a little mini short film I made on one of the days I spent hunting for an interesting subject for the project, which at the time was just a music video with no specific direction other than it had to be in Florida. I spent many days alone texting ex-girlfriends and wandering into strange spaces to film things that shot at me. This was one of them.
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