Witness

A rustle through the leaves, the crack of a whip.

  • Grayson Simon
    Director
    Fear of A Blank Planet
  • Ryan Kendall
    Director of Photography
  • Grayson Simon
    Editors
    Fear of A Blank Planet
  • Inanimus
    Score
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, Avant Garde
  • Runtime:
    1 minute 54 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 29, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    300 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Super 8mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Psyched! Fest
    San Francisco, California
    United States
    October 31, 2024
    North American Premiere
    Curatorial Debut
Director Biography - Grayson Simon

GrayDaughter is a visual and experimental fine artist whose subversive photographic and motion work often focuses on themes of collective introspection and raw, intrepid emotions. Their approach to analog marries the houses of music culture and documentary filmmaking, striking a distinct-yet-authentic visual balance between intimately shared slice-of-life moments and fully choreographed art house scenes.

In August of 2024, GrayDaughter’s psychological short film, Fear of a Blank Planet, featuring sounds from Austrian doom metal quartet Black Air, received its debut screening summer of 2024 at Wilmington Underground Film Festival.
They are based out of Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Director Statement

Have you ever just known--- ...when the time was right? When lightning was set to strike? It's the discomfort that sits deep inside your bones. It's the scathing tension burning up your insides. A release from ultimate sacrifice, "Witness" unravels recurring threads of stoic confirmations from chaotic visions and weaves them into a tool of evolutionary accomplice.