Abigail Goldman spends her work days as an investigator for a public defender’s office in Washington state, helping people who are seriously in trouble—which can mean hours of staring at grisly pictures of crime scenes, visiting morgues, even observing autopsies. By night, she dreams up gruesome events, which she then turns into tiny, precise dioramas. In this new documentary short, we follow along as Goldman brings her miniature worlds of murder and mayhem to life with tweezers, paint, and resin, and meet the people who just can’t get enough of her twisted visions—where the final touch is always, in the artist’s words, “two or three brushstrokes of red paint.”

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Credits Director: Kevin Staake Executive Producer: Ryan Staake Producer: Ryen Bartlett Cinematographer: Kristian Zuniga, Bob Blankemeier Editor: Joe Siegel Sound Designer: Neil Koperek Music: Davis Jones Additional Credits: Production Coordinator: Nicole Bartlett, Production Assistant: Ronnie Hamilton, Production Assistants (NY): Akil Jones, Ameer Kazmi, Drone Operator: Jordan Myers, 1st Assistant Camera: Daniel Guadalupe, 1st Assistant Camera: Donavon de Cesare, Gaffer: Christopher Gould, Location Sound (NY): Gabe Quiroga, Colorist: David Torcivia, Business & Legal Affairs: Eric Marguiles