sometimes, i think about dying | Sundance Short Film About Depression

Fran is thinking about dying, but a man in the office might want to date her. Stefanie Abel Horowitz's "sometimes, i think about dying" is a short film which premiered at Sundance 2019, and won awards at Aspen and Palm Springs. A masterful exercise in tone, and a refreshingly honest examination of depression and social isolation, the short walks a fine line in examining its protagonist's dark malaise, but also weaving in humor, as Fran must decide whether to open herself up to connection. *A selection of Short of the Week* SUBMIT A FILM: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/submit/ FULL REVIEW: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2019/10/23/som… "The film begins with narration by its protagonist Fran: “My world is in a universe, my country is in a world. My state is in a country, my city is in a state…” Fran’s nesting classifications continue to shrink down in scale until she arrives at herself—in a bed, in a room, in a house. Her taxonomical impulse is an attempt to instill