A couple of years ago, I put together this video mood board for the story I've been writing and rewriting forever—I hope to finish it once and for all this summer.

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The song is M83's "Don't Save Us From the Flames," and clips are from several films that have altered my thinking, especially Poltergeist, which probably made an entire generation afraid of television static, as well as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mother, Apocalypse Now, Audition, A Face in the Crowd, Titane, Max Headroom, Night of the Hunter, Stalker, The Running Man, Nocturnal Animals, In the Mood for Love, and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring.