Today, we are releasing a short film that Rob, Jason, and I have been working through the film festival circuit over the past year.
Telling Mattresses Stories: Jason and Ellie go on a Kafkaesque quest to keep a 3 day old mattress with a 90 day return policy out of a landfill.
This is a story that Jason told me at the Philly dive bar Dirty Frank’s when I first moved back from CA to NYC a few years ago.
He made a quick apology, “Sorry, I need to go charge my phone. It’s an iPhone 6, and I know if I get rid of it, it’s going straight to the trash, so I just charge it every ten minutes, so I know it won’t end up in a landfill.”
I responded, “I’ve been thinking a lot about trash, too, because I’m trying to furnish my entire house on Craigslist and FB Marketplace, but the one area I have been running into an issue is with a mattress. You don’t REALLY want to get a used mattress, you know.”
And Jason said to me, “Well, I’ve got a story for you about a mattress.”
Then he told me his tale – which was just so Kafkaesque – the perfect example of the guy trying to do the right thing in the twenty-twenties – and I said, “we gotta make this a movie.”
And so we did!
This thing spent a lot of time on the editing blocks, but by the time we finished it, I think we honed it down into a really tight – and I think universal – story.
Hope you enjoy it!
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