Time Crisis: The Story of Arcade Legend Eddie Esguerra | Documentary Short film

🎬 SUBMIT YOUR FILM ➔ https://shortverse.com/submit A devoted regular at Los Angeles arcade bars turns a solitary obsession with a 90s video game into a lifeline for connection. _Time Crisis: The Story of Arcade Legend Eddie Esguerra_ Dir. Brooke Palmieri & Zac Weathers The gameplay sequences are staged with pumping music and quick edits, as if Eddie was the hero of an action film – an experience that may well reflect how it feels in his own mind – only for a cut to the external perspective to reveal how it actually looks to an outsider. But that doesn’t matter to Eddie, who is deeply engaged in his own world, in the best possible sense. I hope that every one of us has at least one pursuit that allows them to forget time and self, and become absorbed in something joyful and meaningful to us. - S/W Curator, Georg Csarmann FULL REVIEW: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2025/12/22/time-crisis-the-story-of-arcade-legend-eddie-esguerra/ *CREDITS* Eddie Esguerra - Cast Directors - Brooke Palmieri & Zac Weathers Producers - Zac Weathers, Brooke Palmieri, Sam Sandweiss, Sean Huntley Director of Photography - Brandon Somerhalder Editor - Brooke Palmieri Production Sound - Gabe Linkiewicz Color - Stephen Derluguian Post Sound - Enrique Bencomo 5.1 Mixer - Jay Pellizzi Reproduced on this channel with the permission of the filmmakers.