Experiencing Interruptions?

Fixed Point

Melissa is haunted by other worldly beings who prey on her in her recurring cryptic nightmares. Her friend, Esteban, thinks he can help her decipher and find whats in her dream using an app called Quantum-Scounting. Together they confront her nightmare, but by the time she realizes her dreams have been a premonition, its too late.

  • Teresa-Esmeralda Sanchez
    Director
    Bradey Eros: The Performance of Cinema
  • Teresa-Esmeralda Sanchez
    Writer
  • Teresa-Esmeralda Sanchez
    Producer
  • Colorway Productions LLC
    Producer
  • Makeba L Ross
    Key Cast
    "Melissa"
  • Giovanni Naarendorp
    Key Cast
    "Esteban "Este""
  • Stephen "Gadget" Taylor
    DP
  • Galen Powell
    Story Editor
  • Saffia Rahimtoola
    Graphics / Digital VFX
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Experimental, Sci-fi, thriller
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 19 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 31, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, 16MM
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Teresa-Esmeralda Sanchez

Teresa-Esmeralda Sanchez is a visual artist and award-winning independent documentary filmmaker. In addition to Static Sifting Films, she is creative director and COO at Colorway Productions and the first woman of color sound mixer at the New York Sound Co-Op. While she specializes in documentary storytelling, her work ranges from narrative films to music videos, commercials, local organization work, theater, and weddings. As of recent she's been practicing with traditional analog animation and incorporating it into her modern work.

She is a multi-disciplinary artist, trained in virtually every department in film, informing her decisions as a creative leader. She works to blend genres and innovate the medium. With nearly a decade of experience, she's worked with brands including Hulu, Netflix, YSL, the Food Network, CNN, PBS, and more.

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Director Statement

This film was just supposed to simply be a creative challenge for all my friends/artists at my production company. We were randomly assigned 5 different prompts, and challenged to create a "shortie" applying as many as we could. Inspired by early experimental and surrealist cinema filmmakers, I used this as an opportunity to try out analog animation, where I scraped, bleached, and carved away at the 16 film stock to animate parts of this experimental sci-fi film. It was certainly a journey mixing and layering mediums, and I couldn't have asked for a better team to execute it with.