Tissues

I Periodically Forgot about this story.

Tissues was originally a short story I wrote in 2013 in my second year of high school, it was called Yogurt then. I updated the short story a bit and published it in my one of college’s literary magazines in 2017. Then, in June 2019 I wrote and directed this film while studying at Prague Film School.

Here is the story in it’s earliest form:

Yogurt

A young boy stares up into the intimidating cold brick that is the refrigerator, he wants food.  He grabs a yogurt, he hates yogurt.  But yogurt is all he can reach and nobody is in the apartment to help him.  The boy makes his way slowly and without joy towards the balcony door and slides it open, climbing up onto his dad’s rocking chair using his left hand and his right elbow, treating the yogurt like a glass figurine.  He tears off the foil cover with ease as he looks off into the common below, trees everywhere, trapped in by high-rises, his being one of them. He rarely got this view, his dad would return home each day and sit in this chair, methodically caring for his plant and looking down on the green below. Realizing that he has forgotten a spoon, the boy takes his yogurt in his left hand, reaching to the plant and draping the folds of white-blue cream on each of the leaves, methodically.

I hope this provides a more full picture of the film.