YOU CAN GO NOW

When a loved one isn’t expected to live much longer everything changes. We become hypersensitive to the world around us, yet simultaneously numb to things and dumbfounded by how mundane other’s lives may seem as we begin to move through the motions. It seems as though no one can see you.

Explaining what that feels like is nearly impossible to put into words. Enter screen left YOU CAN GO NOW, a short film that takes this experience and provides it an artistic framing where words can fail, filled with symbolic strangers and visceral scenes to construct those initial moments of shock into an emotionally powerful path leading to the moment when one must face the tragedy in person.

Director's Bio:

Marisa Merkl is a first-time female director from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who has been writing scripts for the past four years. She has her second short coming out Halloween of 2020 and is pursuing the direction of her first feature by 2022. Her work is centered around themes of universal human existence, whether it be gutting, humorous or peculiar.