PERFECT DECAY

SYNOPSIS

“During an intimate interview, a photographer looks back on her life and career capturing Los Angeles. What starts as a reflection on the city’s beauty slowly becomes something deeper, a reckoning with the cracks beneath the surface and the challenges that define it today.”

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

Perfect Decay began with a simple question from cinematographer Tucker K Anderson: “Do you and Kyra want to shoot something?” He had a brand-new ARRI Alexa 35 package on hand between shoots and wanted to make the most of the time. We had no script, no rigid plan, just a shared curiosity and a window of opportunity. Within days, we were walking the streets of Los Angeles, letting intuition guide us.

At the time, it had been five years since I’d last directed a film. That chapter of my life felt like it had quietly closed, reshaped by the chaos of COVID-19, industry shutdowns, and personal shifts I didn’t see coming. I had poured myself into producing, building businesses, supporting other artists. And somewhere along the way, I started to wonder: Was that it? Had I left directing behind?

This short film, improvised in spirit but anchored in truth, answered that question for me. It reminded me why I fell in love with filmmaking in the first place. Why, even after all this time, it still feels like the one thing I understand at a soul level.

The film itself is a reflection on Los Angeles: its beauty, its brokenness, and its slow unraveling when left unchecked. It’s about how things change, how people change, and what we lose when we stop paying attention. But more than anything, it’s about the artist’s path. About holding on through the moments when it all feels impossible and finding the courage to begin again.

I’m endlessly grateful to Kyra Grace: my wife, muse, and creative partner for always believing in me. And to Tucker, for seeing something in us and sparking this collaboration. Perfect Decay may be small in scope, but for me, it marks something big: a return. A reminder. And, hopefully, the beginning of something new.

CAST

Photographer - Kyra Grace

PRODUCTION COMPANY

Lost Objects

CREW

Producers - Brendan Sweeney, Tucker K Anderson
Director - Brendan Sweeney
Cinematographer - Tucker K Anderson
Editors - Luke Wyatt, Brendan Sweeney
Colorist - Cameron McCutcheon

MUSIC

“Sumerian Paradise” - Dew of Light
Music from Epidemic Sound

SPECIAL THANKS

Filmmakers Academy
Vault Rentals
Element Filters
Lost Objects