Keyword Tortured Artist

An artist reflects on her career and the dark events of her past that haunt her

A professional origamist hits a creative block in her work and becomes dangerously desperate to bring life back to her art.

A successful writer faces the pressures of finishing her latest novel all while the main character she has written hunts her down, demanding an ending to her story.

Take It Easy For A Little While is a short, introspective film detailing the mind of an obsessive one-hit-wonder, trying to make a name for themselves musically. Mark, a middle-aged sellout, is trying to write an album to verify his integrity as a songwriter and musician, but writer's block is plaguing his creative process. Lack of proper sleep and intense stress cause hallucinations for Mark, of which then become the inspiration for his songs.

Locked in a barren room and forced to write the "greatest story ever told" for a cash prize, tortured artist Ivan must battle the pressure to make great art and the characters in his mind who have other plans for him.