
OBSESSIVE
Synopsis
OBSESSIVE is a meditation on obsessive doubt and facing your fears, written and created over the course of eight days in September 2022 for the 26th edition of Kinomada, a week-long cooperative film laboratory in Québec City at La Charpente des Fauves.
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