Lakeview Lane was released in January of 2021 as part of The Tender Hearts Club, a newsletter by Faith Geiger and myself. It was filmed in August of 2020. Following is an except from the letter that talks more in depth about the film and how it came to be:

Life has felt slow and vast and like something you float in, something you’re just grateful to stay above the surface of rather than something you move through with purpose. It’s been a year of treading. We imagine it would have felt this way even without the pandemic. Navigating the year after finishing college feels like making your way through a tunnel that you know probably has a light at the end, but the trouble with the light is that it needs a match to be lit, and you don’t even know where to start looking for the match, and you start to wonder if it even exists at all or if everyone who claims to have made it through the tunnel and found the match and basked in the light are all lying. 

Anyway, this film we made, Lakeview Lane, was sort of inspired by that feeling. And also the feeling of being in your hometown, and talking to an old friend, and how the past always seems impossibly bright.

We wrote the scene in August and decided to shoot it a couple days later on leftover rolls of super 8 with our friend Valerie. Our friend and longtime collaborator JP sound designed and scored it for us (the song in the second half is Interlude by Soccer Mommy). It’s hard to shoot analogue on a whim because of the limited takes and the unpredictability of whether or not the film will even turn out, but we loved making this tiny film because of its spontaneity and our desire to capture some sort of truth in our coming of age. And most of all because it holds as a reminder that we are so lucky to move through this life with people who take time to understand and love and create together.

P.S. The Super 8 Camera doesn’t have crystal sync sound (no sound and not a consistent 24fps) so the discrepancy in audio and visuals is because of that!