TX 020:52 · 9:16 · 2026
The Door
Short film · Ostuni, Puglia
Anything that stands still is painted. Including his front door.
Transcript
00:00In Ostuni, everything is painted white.
00:04The town has been whitewashed with lime since the plague, the story goes.
00:09Anything that stands still is painted.
00:12Including his front door.
00:15He kept the key.
00:18He tries every wall.
00:21The painters know him. They paint around him.
00:24The cats step aside.
00:27He does not stop. Stopping is how it happened.
00:35Forty-one coats.
A mockumentary. Ostuni's white lime-wash is real; the little man, his door and the forty-one coats are fictional. Images and voices are AI-generated.
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