Delicates

Colin has hit a new low. Fresh off a breakup, he shuffles through the motions of his life and his laundry. And to make things worse, he just lost one of his favorite socks in the wash.

But when the missing pair is found by the stubborn and quick-witted Megan, the two soon discover they can communicate telepathically whenever they wear their half.

Over the course of a year, we follow the unlikely friendship and strange romance of two lost twenty-somethings who meet foot to foot but never face to face.

  • Ben See-Tho
    Director
    Anything You Want (Music Video)
  • Kyle Petersen
    Director
  • Kyle Petersen
    Writer
  • Emily Massey
    Producer
  • Janet Hyojo Oh
    Producer
    Like Clockwork
  • Henry Alper
    Key Cast
    "Colin"
  • Kelly Ng
    Key Cast
    "Megan"
    FBI (CBS), The Philosophy of a College Dropout (NYU TV Pilot)
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Romance, Drama
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes 50 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 10, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States, United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States, United States
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Ben See-Tho, Kyle Petersen

Ben See-Tho and Kyle Petersen are lifelong friends who grew up together in the Bay Area. DELICATES came out of their shared love for rom coms, music-driven stories, and New York City.

Ben is a Filipino-Malaysian-German director from the Bay Area who completed his BFA in Film & TV at NYU Tisch. His work has been featured by GRAMMY U and Asian Cinevision. He is the founder of ORANGEJUUZ, a boutique production company. Influenced by his background in dance and music, he welcomes playfulness in his process and embraces unconventionality.

Kyle, who grew up in Westchester, NY before moving to Bay Area in middle school, is a writer and director who completed his BFA in Screenwriting at USC. His writing has been featured on USC Comedy Live and he placed second-round in the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition. He mixes his love of classic comedies with an ambition to tell honest stories about uncertain relationships. DELICATES marks his directorial debut, and he currently works as a motion picture literary assistant at Verve Talent & Literary Agency.

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Director Statement

Delicates is about the ebb and flow of failed romantic connections in a time when loneliness fueled by social media and supercharged by a pandemic is at an all time high. It’s about online dating, urban isolation, and long distance relationships — which is weird because it was really just supposed to be a sketch.

At first, the whole concept was one long joke: what if two people met through a magic sock but still had the same problems of every relationship? He’s upset because she got home so late, she doesn’t think he listens about her art show, neither of them can tell how committed the other person wants to be. This can be so funny! But as we started developing that joke, we got more and more into the idea that playing it right meant playing the emotions of their relationship completely straight. In order to be funny, it had to feel real to us.

Before we knew it, our own unresolved romantic experiences emerged in the film in unexpected ways. So what were the results when we started showing people the footage from our fantasy romance comedy sketch?

“That was really sad,” people said. “Why does she break up with him?”

“That was tough for me because it felt exactly like my last hinge relationship. How did you guys know about that?”

“I just feel so bad. It’s so hard to meet people in this city.”

Turns out, our circumstances were more universal than we thought.

Situationships that fizzle out, realizing you want something different than the person you are seeing, and the feelings of loss after you lose someone you liked maybe a little more than you were supposed to — these are the little tragedies that everyone has gone through, and I think they hurt and stay with us more than we talk about to our friends. So we made this film as an ode to the million tiny heartbreaks plaguing the lonely generation. We can’t give you the solutions to all of these problems, but we can at least look forward to the day we have in-unit laundry.