On a stormy night in a cramped decrepit apartment, 1973, a traumatized man seeking solace and structure through meditative drawing grapples with rabid anxieties as order and chaos collide and overtake him in this psychedelic trip of a film. Part narrative psycho-thriller, part audio-visual spectacle, one technicolor nightmare. Take the trip.
Optic Nerve I 2020 I 15 Minutes
Directed by Peter J. Hartsock
Written by Peter J. Hartsock
Produced by Peter J. Hartsock, Gabriel Acosta
Starring: Theodore Copeland
Director of Photography Peter J. Hartsock
Original Music by Aaron Rizzo
ACCOLADES
Winner I Audience Choice Award I Sydney Underground Film Festival 2020
Winner I Best Editing I HorrOrigins Film Fest 2020
Winner I Best Musical Score I Bizarroland Film Festival 2020
Winner I Best Experimental Film I Peephole FilmFest 2020
Nominated I Best Musical Score and Best Production Design I Horrible Imaginings 2020
Nominated I Best Editing Musical Score and Cinematography I Grindsploitation Film Fest
Nominated I Finalist I Hollywood Horrorfest 2020
Official Selection I Chattanooga Film Festival 2021
Official Selection I Film Maudit 2021
Official Selection I Anomaly 2020
