Keane, nearing thirty, finds a box of his absent father’s negatives. He prints the images in a darkroom’s red glow. As he and his mother Diane look through distant exposures from the half-past, the prints expose a life that was always out of frame. Closure leads them back to the shoreline, where Keane reframes what remains.

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Close (2026)

October 9, 2026 6 min

Drama

Director: Robert Ripley  ·  Writer: Robert Ripley

Keane, nearing thirty, finds a box of his absent father’s negatives. He prints the images in a darkroom’s red glow. As he and his mother Diane look through distant exposures from the half-past, the prints expose a life that was always out of frame. Closure leads them back to the shoreline, where Keane reframes what remains.

Director

Robert Ripley Robert Ripley

Cast

Dylan Blore Dylan Blore Kirsten Maguire Kirsten Maguire