Fish Tank

Directed by Neal Mulani

When a student ventures to his first hookup with a mysterious older gentleman, he faces the daunting task of discerning whether his anxieties forewarn of a darker reality lurking behind his host's facade.
Fish Tank is a tense American gay short film about a college student arriving for a hookup with an older man and gradually wondering whether his unease is ordinary nervousness or something more dangerous. Neal Mulani uses the confined setting to create real paranoia, turning desire, shame and power imbalance into a quietly unsettling psychological encounter.

Fish Tank

Directed by Neal Mulani

When a student ventures to his first hookup with a mysterious older gentleman, he faces the daunting task of discerning whether his anxieties forewarn of a darker reality lurking behind his host's facade.

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Fish Tank is a tense American gay short film about a college student arriving for a hookup with an older man and gradually wondering whether his unease is ordinary nervousness or something more dangerous. Neal Mulani uses the confined setting to create real paranoia, turning desire, shame and power imbalance into a quietly unsettling psychological encounter.