INFO
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Director |
Dylan Pailes-Friedman |
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Genre |
Experimental |
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Duration |
9’ |
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Year |
2025 |
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Nationality |
USA, Italy |
SYNOPSYS
A rainy morning is interrupted by the radio. A horse’s voice transports the daily commute in Los Santos, San Andreas to a remote broadcasting station in an unspecified location. He’s written a novel reflecting on the past. An ancestral memory. Movement and time become uncertain—we traverse abandoned histories through valleys and train tracks. Among the spoor is a longing for connection, a lost sense of value, a desire to be stolen.
STILLS
CREDITS
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Director |
Dylan Pailes-Friedman |
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Genre |
Experimental |
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Duration |
9′ |
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Nationality |
USA, Italy |
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Production |
56 Bones Il Varco Cinema |
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Cast |
Masaki Ishikawa Anna Lawrence Tino Martyn Kellighan Corey Hughes Cara Jocelyn Delevingne |
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Cinematography |
Dylan Pailes-Friedman |
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Visual Effects Supervisor |
Sharif Elsabagh |
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Sound design and mixing |
Tommaso Barbaro |
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Sound Editing |
Luca Canzano |
AWARDS AND SELECTIONS
2025
World Premiere
21. Lago Film Fest
2025
Official Selection
6. i-Fest International Film Festival
2025
Official Selection
6. Desenzano Film Festival
2025
Official Selection
1. Kinejo Festival
2025
Official Selection
35. Message to Man International Film Festival
2025
Official Selection
9. Beijing International Short Film Festival
2025
Official Selection
19. TiSFF Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival
2025
Official Selection
3. NOAM Faenza Film Festival
2026 - BAFTA ® QUALIFYING
Official Selection
23. London Short Film Festival
2026 - BAFTA ®, OSCAR ®, CANADIAN SCREEN ® QUALIFYING
Official Selection
32. Slamdance Film Festival
2026
Official Selection
20. Pragueshorts Film Festival
2026
Official Selection
11. International Filmfest Bremen
2026
Official Selection
10. Filmfort - Treefort Music Fest
2026
Official Selection
10. SANFICI - Santander International Independent Film Festival
DYLAN PAILES-FRIEDMAN
BIOGRAPHY
Dylan Pailes-Friedman is a filmmaker and multimedia artist born and raised in NYC currently based in Glasgow, Scotland. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Pratt Institute in 2017 with a BFA in Film/Video. His short films engage themes of intimacy, mental health and collective memory. They have screened domestically and internationally at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Cork International Film Festival, Dublin International Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, and New Hampshire Film Festival among others. His work has been featured online at Omeletto (Oscar Award requiring international film publication), NoBudge, The Eyeslicer ‘An experimental TV show curated by Jane Schoenbrun and Vanessa McDonnell,’ and Booooom. In 2022 he was a selected participant in the PlayLab Film Creators Lab hosted by director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. In 2023 he was a selected participant in the Nouvelle Bug Film Residency hosted by director Andrea Gatopoulos.
FILMOGRAPHY
SOMEONE TO STEAL HORSES WITH
2025
GRIM ALL DAY
2024
DREAMING ABOUT POISON AGAIN
2022
I’LL BE HERE FOR A WHILE
2019
DO MORE OF WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY
2018