Written and directed by Indiana Christian, this live cinema installation invites audiences to become both spectators and subjects in a uniquely cinematic performance. Participants are guided onto a stage concealed by a projection screen. To the seated audience, only their feet are visible, shuffling, hesitating, dancing, or crossing paths quietly. Behind the screen, however, a live feed reveals a different layer of reality. Cameras capture and project the participants’ interactions in real time, transforming spontaneous exchanges into an unfolding filmic narrative.

Each participant is gently guided by a script—not of lines, but of questions. These questions invite personal reflection on the universal childhood experience of losing one’s baby teeth. Through open and unscripted dialogue, participants recall their earliest encounters with pain, change, and transformation. As these stories surface, poetic parallels begin to emerge between the loss of baby teeth and the later, more complex shedding of innocence that marks one’s entry into adulthood.

Nothing is pre-written beyond the questions; it is the participants’ own words that compose the script in real time. Their honesty shapes the emotional and narrative landscape, exposing connections between physical and emotional growth, between the blood and tenderness of childhood loss and the often similarly raw experiences of maturing.

Each performance becomes a living film, a meditation on vulnerability, change, and the shared human rites of passage that define us. Blurring the boundaries between performance, cinema, and participation, Indiana Christian’s work invites audiences to reconsider what it means to watch, to remember, and to grow up.