Marrow

“Marrow” was Loupe’s first narrative feature as sole production house, made on a modest budget in a decommissioned meatpacking facility outside Fresno. The story follows two sisters, unspeaking for six years, forced back into a shared building and a forty-day option-to-sell clock left by their late father’s will.

The production shot almost entirely with existing practical fixtures already installed in the facility — sodium work lights, fluorescent office tubes, a single functioning cold-storage unit whose compressor hum became part of the film’s sound design rather than something to remove in post. The camera department kept coverage deliberately restrained: long static setups, minimal reframing, blocking built to avoid a cut rather than around one.

“Marrow” screened at three festivals and won a regional award for sound design.

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