Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued

Section: Competition
Title: Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued
Director: Julian Castronovo, Julian Castronovo
Cast: Julian Castronovo, Song Hui
Duration: 1h 18m
Country: United States
Language: en
Year: 2025

A young man named Julian moves to New York City. He rents a small room and one day, as he repaints the room, he finds a book and a pencil drawing of a deer concealed in the wall. After some preliminary research, he realizes these objects may have been left by a painting forger who seemingly disappeared two decades earlier. After failing to decipher the clues he’s found, Julian realizes he would do anything in order to solve the mystery...