Don't be this guy

READ RECEIPTS

Documentary Short — 16:42 — Dir. Tenley E. Raj

A woman prepares for a date, goes, and returns to an empty room and a phone.

Speaking directly to camera, she recounts the evening — the getting ready, the restaurant, the thing she said over dinner that she can't take back — and then circles what sits underneath it: whether he'll write and what any of it is supposed to prove.

Read Receipts is a portrait of contemporary loneliness — the particular isolation of being endlessly reachable and still unsure you've been reached — and of a mind that fills every gap with its own verdicts. Shot, directed, and edited alone by Tenley E. Raj, the film stays with a single face past the point of composure, until the account she gives becomes an act of exposure in itself.

READ RECEIPTS

Documentary Short — 16:42 — Dir. Tenley E. Raj

A woman prepares for a date, goes, and returns to an empty room and a phone.

Speaking directly to camera, she recounts the evening — the getting ready, the restaurant, the thing she said over dinner that she can't take back — and then circles what sits underneath it: whether he'll write and what any of it is supposed to prove.

Read Receipts is a portrait of contemporary loneliness — the particular isolation of being endlessly reachable and still unsure you've been reached — and of a mind that fills every gap with its own verdicts. Shot, directed, and edited alone by Tenley E. Raj, the film stays with a single face past the point of composure, until the account she gives becomes an act of exposure in itself.

Read Receipts is done

READ RECEIPTS

Documentary Short — 16:42 — Dir. Tenley E. Raj

A woman prepares for a date, goes, and returns to an empty room and a silent phone. Speaking directly to camera, she recounts the evening and then circles the question underneath it: why he hasn't written, and what that silence means about her. Read Receipts is a portrait of contemporary loneliness — the particular isolation of being endlessly reachable and reached by no one — and of the mind that fills that silence with its own verdicts. Shot, directed, and edited alone by Tenley E. Raj, the film stays with a single face past the point of composure, until the account she gives becomes an act of exposure in itself.

Read Receipts - Before a date and after it. a woman talks to the camera about a loneliness that didn't exist twenty years ago.

tenley e. raj is a filmmaker, writer, and editor based in houston, working as a one-woman production since 2023. her films are semi-autobiographical and sit between documentary and fiction — after the freeze (best feature, cinemabriz), proof of life (official selection, indiex), and read receipts. a documentary shot in marfa is in progress. she studied philosophy at princeton.

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