Fireworks Logo

Latest Shorts...

  • Coming Out with the Help of a Time Machine
  • I Don't Need a Reason
  • Co-Pilots
  • Skin to Skin
  • Delta
  • Fruity
  • Remembering His Touch
  • Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other
  • No Strings Attached
  • Little One
  • Ismay - 'Stranger in the Barn'
  • Chappell Roan: Casual
  • Worst Date, Best Date
  • My Condolences to Your Future Lovers
  • What I'm Hiding from You...
  • I Know Two Boys
  • Halfway
  • Cursive
  • Safety State
  • YDHTLM: You Don't Have to Like Me
  • Happy Valentine's Day
  • Autoficker (Die)
  • Thinking About Your Dad
  • For the Ones Stuck at Home
  • In a Hole
  • Maika Küster: Wtchsong
  • Closet Combat
  • Out of the Corner of Our Eye
  • Pride is not available in your region
  • Cul Riculum Vitae
  • Batter My Heart
  • 13 grammes
  • Frisky Business
  • Pacemaker
  • Ausência
  • Best Wishes
  • Bro
  • Camderina Diner (The)
  • Other Side of Clean (The)
  • altSHIFT Volume One

First Stop to Catharsis (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 24 mins

  • Director: Jonathan Stark
  • Writer: Duke Greenhill
  • Producer: Duke Greenhill; Jonathan Stark

CGiii Comment

It's Cinema Verite...20 minutes too long.


Watch...here

 

The(ir) Blurb...

This Cinema Verite style film is about a couple who divorce because the husband is gay. After several years, they reconnect to go on a road trip from New York to Texas with the hope that by revisiting their past, and using the symbolic locations as a springboard for freeing their emotions, they go from deeply loved but disconnected, to deeply loved and together once again. This film captures the first leg (New York) in their journey and the ex-wife's reluctance to relive the past and partake in the journey.

Cast & Characters

Michael Brady as Michael Brady;
Duke Greenhill as Duke Greenhill;
Shawn Michael Harris as Shawn Michael Harris;
Courtney-Brooke Johnson as Maggie Greenhill;
Richard Pacifico as Body Builder