CLOSING TIME

What if you could go back to before?

A darkly comic head-trip, CLOSING TIME is a short about the drug of memory: the sliding doors that led to where we are now, and the times where despite our best selves we fixate the doors we left closed. This film is embarrassingly personal, an ode to faded relationships that still give me inexplicable nostalgia. And few songs feel more binding to memory than Semisonic's “Closing Time”… the anthem to our fucked-up college reunion story.

Written and Directed by: Russell Goldman

Produced by Jake Katofsky and Liz Maupin

Composer/Sound Designer: Eric Poretsky, featuring music by the band Pacer

Editor: Marco Rosas

Director of Photography: Ali Arminio

Production Designer: Shane Bannon

Casting by: Jamie Ember

Costume Design: Maria Laura Sandoval

Hair & Makeup Design: Emma Croft

Additional Sound Design: Nate Flaks

Cast 

Caleb Foote
Terry Hu
Samantha Bartow
Demi Adejuyigbe
Alyssa Limperis

PRESS & PRAISE FOR CLOSING TIME

“A mesmerizing masterpiece…” — Short Films Matter

“Goldman excellently carries us through his mystery revealing surprises along the way. The final revelations are haunting and very sci-fi, and it all ends in a Hitchcockian fashion.” — Total Film

“It’s an ode to Goldman’s directorial and writing skills that we get to witness what a wholesome multi-starrer can actually achieve.” — Indie Shorts Mag

MOVIE MAKER: Russell Goldman’s ‘Closing Time’ Short Puts an Unexpected Twist on Time Travel

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