The Painting.

Mira is a portrait painter, midway through a career she keeps almost-leaving. The commission is straightforward: a private collector, a family heirloom, a face she’s never seen. She’s painting it from a single grainy reference photograph and the rest of her own intuition.

Twenty-two minutes is not a long time. The Painting takes them slowly. We watch Mira work. We watch the painting watch her. We watch the line between them get thinner, then crooked, then gone. By the time the third act resolves, you will not be sure who is the subject.

The Painting was shot in fourteen days in a single converted barn in upstate New York, in 2024, and released theatrically and on the festival circuit in 2025. It is the studio’s most acclaimed work to date, and the piece that paid for everything we’ve done since.