1. Love and Violence

"Andreas Breathes" is an absurdist two-hander about masculinity and contact: can a touch that bruises still be love?

Centered in the garden of a rage filled man, the film follows him and his gentle caretaker. The man, Andreas, spends all his days killing flies, but when one of these flies doesn't die, he is wrought out of reality and sent into his fractured past.

The violent man, and the gentle caretaker embark on a journey backwards into the violent man's collapsing psyche, tracing the nature of contact in both of their lives.

1. the tyrant

ANDREAS, is a devout cynic, a deeply masculine man who is at odds with his age and his isolation. He is someone who has pushed away all of the people closest to him, burnt every bridge that wasn’t strong enough to handle the sheer force of him.

Throughout this film, Andreas takes on the perspective of his mentors, watching the battles, victories and traumas of his younger years from the outside, softening little by little as he begins to understand the many cracks in his psyche.

2. the lover

LEO is the ideal caretaker. A private nurse, surrounded by the prospect of death every day. Leo is someone who puts out fires everywhere he goes, determined to save whomever he can, often at great cost to himself. Leo is Andreas' nurse, their relationship is a tumultuous one. Andreas is synonymous with brutality, cruelty, his religion is violence, Leo’s religion is love.