Dr. sam mulaney's burden (2017)

Made during the first semester of my third year at CalArts. Originally this film was going to be about Celisse, based on a short story I wrote for a class on “weird fiction”. You can read the story here. I took an independent study with another faculty member so that I could make a film instead of taking another class, and he suggested that I rewrite the story from the POV of the doctor.

In the original story, I had given the random doctor character the name “Dr. Sam” because it was the first name I thought of. My friend Sam Lane was in the class, and did a peer-review of my story, where she circled the name and wrote “nice name!” so I thought it would be funny to name the character Sam MuLaney and have Sam voice the character and base her mannerisms off her.

The film was completed in 2 weeks.

Music by Wolf Woodcock.

Special thanks to Sam Lane, Haein Michelle Heo, Behrouz Rae, Isabel Higgins and Emily Martinez. 

3/5 of my "Wasteland" series of films.