how do you move in this world | short film

logline: a man attends a seminar in the woods and then heads home

run time: 2 min

year: 2025

upcoming screenings: tba

thoughts: This brief film explores isolation in nature and the natural world as well as the split between abstractions like intention and purpose and the vagaries of the real world. I came up with the idea on a walk with my dog in the local nature park, where the video was shot. Originally, the entire film would exist in the woods but during editing I added a recent highway shot and came up with the closing voiceover.

a northern flicker films production | shot and edited by brian padian | music excerpted from “down the sky they sing” by scott unrein | voice by reginald k butters | sound design by tucky birdbath | written + directed by brian padian