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She pauses. The red light flickers.

The camera—a bulky Sony Handycam, the kind that eats batteries like candy—rests on a stack of Seventeen magazines. The red record light blinks. Grainy, over-saturated light fills the frame: a bedroom in suburban Ohio, walls plastered with Polaroids and torn-out pages of Liv Tyler. fylm All I Wanna Do 1998 mtrjm kaml may syma - may syma 1

"What's a syma?" Moth asks in the video, off-camera, sharpening a pair of scissors. She pauses

The tape contains only one song: a demo recording of May's own voice, slowed down to half-speed, singing a cover of "All I Wanna Do" by a forgotten 90s band called The Make-Up. But the lyrics have changed. The red record light blinks

"Take one," she says. Then she rewinds the tape, records over it. "Take two. is not a movie. It's a manifesto. If I die before graduation, this is why."