"Held in my hand like an instrument of necessity"
Modern, surrealist adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' directed by experimental filmmaker Alexander Miller
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Casey Vieira
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Jenna Grace Sciuto
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