STUDY 007 · A SHORT FILM IN CHARCOAL

What the
hands keep.

Five ordinary moments, one family, a few clocks. No faces and no words, only distance, light and the room between people. Scroll at your own pace.

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The film, scene by scene

07:10. A kitchen at breakfast. A tall figure and a small figure sit at either end of a short table, a pocket watch between them, a wall clock above. Morning light crosses the floor.
The long way home. The two walk hand in hand past a clock tower whose hands spin. Leaves fall. By the end of the street the small figure is as tall as the other, and their hands let go.
16:40. A station platform. One figure boards a train and the train leaves. The camera pulls back until the one who stayed is small in an empty platform at dusk.
23:50. The same kitchen at night. One chair is empty. Moonlight moves across the floor and the remaining figure fades like charcoal brushed from paper. The pocket watch has stopped.
07:10. Close on the watch: a hand winds it and the second hand starts again. Dawn returns, and pulling back, the kitchen holds a tall figure and a small one at breakfast again.

WHAT WE’RE TESTING

Every cut passes through a clock face: the camera pushes into one scene’s clock and pulls back out of the next. The only colour is the second hand.

This is a first capability draft: one SVG stage, one scroll-scrubbed timeline, native scroll and no video.