Mel is on a road trip, collecting spells — runic symbols imbued with magical properties.
Some of these properties are quaint, others can alter the fabric of reality.
While some spells are hoarded by unhinged people in various states of affluence or disrepair, other spells lay dormant in the attics and basements of unwitting inheritors… scrawled on old cookbooks and teapots, carved beneath floorboards.
But most spells are passed down like old money, keeping industrious families and unseemly empires in power; violently or otherwise.
Mel has experienced firsthand what happens when these spells are kept hidden from the people who really need them. Walking a blurry line between vengeance and altruism, Mel is going to compile and release the world’s first spellbook. To everyone.
Our short film finds the scrappy artist Mel deep in her journey, her diary-turned-spellbook filling up with some useful but otherwise inconsequential magic. We join her on a fast-paced heist that turns into a fast-paced fight, as a search inside a famous actor’s LA home becomes a clumsy magical scuffle.
