Mental Illness Caregiving
Fractured Minds, Quiet Vigils
These films sit with people at the edge of themselves—waiting out a diagnosis, a disappearance, a catastrophe, a loop that won't release them—and refuse to resolve that waiting into easy clarity. Grief, madness, and reinvention aren't plot twists here but conditions someone has to keep living inside, whether it's a mother reconstructing a lost daughter, a father hiding a secret, or a teenager whose monsters might be real. The pacing tends toward stillness and circling rather than momentum, trusting silence and repetition to carry as much weight as revelation.
