An anxious young man’s day keeps repeating. However, he is unaware that his brain triggers a montage of repeating self-help madness.

Each pass through the day tightens. The faces around him, in a bar, at a window, on a street, begin to carry the same expression, and the advice speeds up to meet them. The film holds on those faces long enough for the resemblance to become uncomfortable. What the loop is for, and whether it ends, is settled in the last minute.

stop it. was shot over three days in Los Angeles, with a cast of six. It runs 11 min.

[production notes. 300 words. method rather than intention: how it was shot, what was decided on the day, what changed, what was cut.]

[locations, camera and lenses, colour and post, and any supporting fund or lab.]

Hal Whitman is a writer and director working in short-form narrative, based in Los Angeles. His films are built around a small cast and a single interior pressure, shot close and cut so the audience arrives at a feeling slightly before it arrives at the explanation. stop it. is his most recent short.