Discover the Journey of 'Range Anxiety'

Ordinary Vulnerability — Rick is not reckless. He did everything right and still ended up stranded. The film asks: how much control do any of us actually have over our circumstances?
Infrastructure & Trust — We depend on systems we do not build, maintain, or understand. A broken charger in a parking lot at midnight is a quiet portrait of how much modern life rests on things working.
Anxiety as Amplifier — Rick's fears are never quite confirmed or fully dismissed. The line between rational concern and spiraling panic is exactly where the film lives.
Fate & Perspective — The film's closing image reframes everything. The terrible night becomes a gift. The anxiety that felt like punishment was, in fact, protection. Rick's suffering was also his salvation.

The film is essentially a single-actor road movie. Long stretches of near-silence broken by the sounds of the GPS, the charger's hum, and hold music. The camera stays close to Rick — his hands on the wheel, his eyes on the dashboard charge display, his breath fogging in cold night air.
The battery meter is always visible in frame when Rick is driving. Its decline is as carefully tracked as any countdown clock.
The Catskill sequences — the fog, the howls, the courthouse parking lot — are shot in deep darkness with minimal artificial light. The audience should feel, viscerally, what it means to be without signal, without charge, and without company in an unfamiliar place.
The return journey is brighter, more open. The fog lifts. The sun rises. Rick's face, lit by dawn, is one of the most earned images the film has to offer.

Locke (2013) — A single man, a car, a phone, an unraveling night. Intimate, suspenseful, character-driven.
Uncut Gems (2019) — Escalating anxiety, systems failing, a man at the mercy of circumstances beyond his control.
Nightcrawler (2014) — The nocturnal landscape of work-for-hire in a city that never fully sleeps.
After Hours (1985) — An ordinary man's catastrophic, absurdist night in unfamiliar territory.

Electric vehicles are no longer futuristic. They are ordinary. But the infrastructure that supports them — the chargers, the apps, the customer service lines — is still catching up. Range anxiety is a documented psychological phenomenon affecting EV drivers worldwide, and it will only grow more relevant as adoption accelerates.
Range Anxiety uses that infrastructure anxiety as a pressure cooker for something older and more universal: the fear of being lost, alone, and out of power — in every sense — in the middle of the night, far from home.