Experiencing Interruptions?

LOOM

Against her wishes, Norah receives a departed loved one's data vault, allowing her to playback all the stored memories on a paired device. Norah relives their most vulnerable moments together, trying to understand why life took the turn it did.

  • Jesse Cook III
    Director
    Peppermint, Neapolitan, The Bell
  • Jesse Cook III
    Writer
    Peppermint, Neapolitan, The Bell
  • Jimmy Luc
    Producer
    Nuclear!, Kill That Man
  • FeiFei Ling
    Producer
  • Danielle Kellermann
    Key Cast
    "Norah"
  • John Thomas Potvin
    Key Cast
    "Jude"
  • Sarah Elziabeth Bedard
    Key Cast
    "Dr. Holden"
  • John Alan Segalla
    Key Cast
    "Louie"
  • Douglas Gordon
    Director of Photography
    The Bell, For You Alexis, Peppermint, Passage
  • Nicole Cook
    Costume Designer
    The Catch, The Shade, Peppermint, Nuclear!
  • Jennifer Driscoll
    Production Designer
  • Jesse Dampolo
    Editor
    Peppermint, In the Now, Neapolitan, Theresa
  • Stephen C. Schmidt
    Composer
    Peppermint
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes 59 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 3, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    8,200 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States, United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States, United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    RED, Digital Capture
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.00:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Jesse Cook III

Jesse Cook III is an award-winning filmmaker local to the New England area. Starting his career in 2013 after graduating from Boston University’s Center for Digital Arts.

As an independent filmmaker, Jesse is an accomplished writer-director for NEAPOLITAN, for which he won awards for Best Original Screenplay at the Rome Independent Film Awards and the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the Colorado International Film Festival. For his sophomore film, PEPPERMINT, he was a two-time nominee for Best Screenplay and Best Director at the London Independent Film Festival, and was a top-20 quarterfinalist at the prestigious Golden Script Competition in Glasgow, Scotland; the film was also a multi-time nominee for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, and Best Score, as well as award-winning performances throughout the ensemble cast from various domestic and international film festivals.

His latest film, LOOM, is an exploration of grief and the journey for closure as we age into a future with expansive tech and communication that is both innately connected yet barren of contact.

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Director Statement

The main objective with our film, LOOM, is to explore the feeling of grief and the journey for closure as we age into a future with expansive tech and communication that is both intrinsically connected yet barren of physical contact.

In generations past, when we lost someone dear to us, you’d perhaps receive or have access to an 8mm home film or a binder of Polaroids or a stack of DV tapes. Today, we have high-resolution cell phone pictures and videos. What does this look like 50 years from now?

LOOM displays many different yet tethered pieces of tech throughout the film. The world the film is set in allows people to purchase chip implants that are able to store their favorite, most impactful memories. When a loved one passes, those sacred moments are transferred to a data vault, which are then relayed to next of kin, power of attorney, et al. And finally, the recipients are then able to playback these memories using a paired device, the LOOM.io helm.

When our loved ones leave us, do they ever really? And if they do, how would you choose to remember them in this futuristic landscape?

LOOM is a film in search of these answers.