glued feature film
Currently in post-production
PASSWORD: GLUED
A few favorite frames, straight from camera dailies with our shooting LUT applied only. This project has just begun post-production.
GLUED
is a non-union ULB feature film
that follows a shift worker who discovers a former detective trapped inside an old television screen, a premise that pulls the story into questions of isolation, surveillance, and the slippage between what's real and what isn't.
We shot the entire film inside a converted warehouse in La Porte, Indiana, building the world of the story within a single contained location. A total of only 15 shoot days. The visual approach was built to put the audience inside the main character's unraveling, using restrained, composed camera work for most of the film so that the frame feels controlled and deliberate, then breaking into handheld for the fight sequences to let the chaos of those moments physically disrupt that control. That contrast does a lot of the storytelling on its own: order breaking down into disorder, mirroring the character's own grip on reality slipping. We shot on Sony Burano with Cooke S4/i lenses.
The making of this one was its own story. I came on as a last-minute replacement DP with about ten days of runway before cameras rolled, which meant assembling an entirely new crew on short notice. We ran it more like a television schedule than a typical feature, leaning on speed and instinct in place of the usual prep. Then a tornado shut us down for a full shoot day, so what was scheduled as fifteen days became fourteen. Given all of that, I'm proud of what we pulled off. It became a real exercise in problem-solving under pressure and trusting the crew to move fast without losing the intention behind every frame.
Note: the footage above is raw camera output and unfinished proxies from production. The film is currently in post-production and does not yet reflect final color or VFX.
