Directed & shot by Murilo Favaro
She can't let anything go.
And the house won't either.
Psychological horror · Short film · AIC 2022
Produced at AIC
Directed & shot by Murilo Favaro
She can't let anything go.
And the house won't either.
Psychological horror · Short film · AIC 2022
Produced at AIC
Beatriz lives alone with her grief and the objects she can't bring herself to let go. But within the walls of her apartment, the quiet routine of mourning slowly unravels into something she can't quite explain.
A room that closes
in on her.
Intimate framing turns a cluttered apartment into a character of its own — every object another thing she cannot let go.
Color & Finishing
The photography leans into a "dirty", washed look that shifts with each stage of grief. Drag the handle to compare the untouched frame with the finished grade.
The Photography
As director of photography, the challenge was to make the apartment feel both comforting and suffocating at once. Wide, static frames watch Beatriz like a silent observer, while tight detail shots press into her most intimate, unraveling moments.
Color carries the emotional arc: a forced, garish yellow for denial, red and black for uncontrolled anger, an over-saturated clutter for bargaining, muted pastels for depression, and finally a pale, quiet white for acceptance. A deliberately "dirty" grade holds it all together.
Shot on a single Bela Vista apartment, the film nods to Hitchcock's Rear Window and Kleber Mendonça Filho's Eletrodoméstica — turning a small, cluttered space into a whole psychological world.