The directive was simple: Using an iPhone and whatever’s easily at your disposal, shoot a short film dealing with quarantine life in 2020. It’s not as if there wasn’t a surplus of storytelling angles, themes and emotions available, considering how much everyone’s lives changed last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The results in the ambitious yet humbly executed With/In run the gamut tonally and narratively, with all of the shorts thriving on a uniform sense of raw, indie-centric looseness. Through that DIY authenticity, the universality of 2020’s sporadic peaks and constant valleys is laid bare, whether it’s topical subjects like Black Lives Matter, playful examinations of technological dependencies and obsessive at-home hobbies or the complexities of love and romance in isolation.
Genres
Drama
Director
Griffin Dunne, Mickey Sumner, Sam Nivola, Arliss Howard, Chris Cooper,
Sebastian Gutierrez, Julianne Nicholson, Jonathan Cake, Bill Camp, Silas Camp and Elizabeth Marvel, Gina Gershon
Cast
Griffin Dunne, Zonia Pelensky
Mickey Sumner, Trudie Styler
Alessandro Nivola, Emily Mortimer, Sam Nivola, May Nivola
Debra Winger, Arliss Howard
Marianne Leone, Chris Cooper
Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki
Julianne Nicholson, Jonathan Cake, Iggy Cake, Phoebe Cake
Bill Camp, Silas Camp and Elizabeth Marvel
Gina Gershon, Griffin Dunne