Beauty Sleep is a retro futuristic short film about beauty, identity, and the dangerous pursuit of perfection.

In a world where perfection is stitched on piece by piece, teenage girls undergo “Beauty Sleep” makeovers, a living embalment, for their Sweet 16, where they emerge from a sparkling coffin instead of a giant cake.

But when an eccentric mortician, trapped under the patriarchal thumb of her controlling boss, accidentally kills a client, she sees a twisted chance to escape. As the clock ticks, she plots her way out by stealing “the face” from the client, but not before giving the dead girl the most bizarrely beautiful makeover of her afterlife. Beauty Sleep is a dark, satirical dive into perfection, creativity, and control.