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INERTIA key art: the title in glowing white letters above a lone figure walking through a hard diagonal beam of light, casting a long shadow. A Jackson Kibby film.

INERTIA, a Jackson Kibby film

Psychological thriller

Some inheritances have to be refused.

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WinnerBest FilmAustin Spotlight Film Festival, 2026
WinnerNarrative FeatureAustin International Film Festival, 2026
PremiereSan AntonioTo a ticketed audience, with a cast and crew Q and A

01Three doors

Where you come in

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Support the film

We're raising $35,000 to shoot the new scenes this winter with our original cast.

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Bring it to your group

Fifteen minutes at one of your meetings: the two minute trailer, and why we made it.

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See how it was made

Made in San Antonio, Texas, with local cast and crew.

Behind the scenes

02The film

Oliver is running out of room

INERTIA is a disorienting descent into a fractured mind: the lifelong devastation of childhood abandonment, the pull of a generational curse, and the moment a man decides whether to carry it forward or break it.

The film, the cast, the road so far

Still from INERTIA: a man in a gray hoodie sits on a black leather couch looking down, a patterned table lamp and a sunlit curtained window behind him.

03From the film

The film in frames

Still from INERTIA: a Newton's cradle, three polished metal balls hanging from thin strings beside its dark upright post, against a pale wall.

Still from INERTIA: a low angle close view of a woman with platinum blonde hair and freckles looking past the camera, a red curtain and bright window behind her.

Still from INERTIA: an old television set shows three people at a pink judging desk under blue stage lights.

Still from INERTIA: a hand reaches for the tuning pegs of an acoustic guitar near a studio condenser microphone.

Still from INERTIA: at night beside a brick wall, a young man in a black hoodie faces a bearded man in a brown leather jacket who holds a small roll of bills.

Still from INERTIA: a close view of a man with short dark hair looking down, a warm lamp glowing out of focus behind him.

Still from INERTIA: a close view of a television screen showing a bearded man in a light hat, tinted sunglasses and a teal jacket.

Still from INERTIA: a man in a dark hooded jacket sits on a bench on a grassy hilltop, flat land and a distant city under an overcast sky.

Still from INERTIA: a dim kitchen where a figure in a hoodie stands at a counter lined with liquor bottles, a round table cluttered with bottles.

Still from INERTIA: a bearded man in a wide brimmed hat and dark blazer grins and points at the camera, tinted blue with television scan lines.

Still from INERTIA: a man's half lit face looks out from a dark doorway beside a wooden door frame, a patterned curtain at the left edge.

Still from INERTIA: a woman with long two tone hair in a pink shaggy sparkling coat looks down, lit by blue light from a window.

Still from INERTIA: a concrete drainage channel with shallow water and a graffiti covered white wall runs beneath a roadside railing where a person in a hooded sweatshirt stands under a blue sky.

Still from INERTIA: a mixing console with rows of dark knobs and glowing red and green buttons.

Still from INERTIA: a close up of a man wearing black studio headphones looking just past the camera, blurred warm stripes of light behind him.

Still from INERTIA: a man in dark clothes carries a white cloth along a brick building at night, past a fire escape and a green dumpster covered in graffiti.

Still from INERTIA: a man in a dark hooded sweatshirt looks down in a dim kitchen, glass bottles lined up on the counter behind him.

Still from INERTIA: a close view of a man in shadow pressing his fist to his forehead with his eyes closed, light from window blinds on the left.

Still from INERTIA: a green hillside of low shrubs under a pale pink overcast sky.

Still from INERTIA: an aerial view of a busy elevated highway and interchange with a distant skyline.

Still from INERTIA: an extreme close view of a man in a brimmed hat and dark sunglasses that reflect a street.

Still from INERTIA: a close view of a young man in a hooded sweatshirt with his eyes closed under blue light.

Still from INERTIA: a man in a dark hooded sweatshirt sits in a red chair against a black background, his face lit from above.

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Still from INERTIA: a shirtless man sits on the edge of a bed with his head bowed beside a lit lamp on a nightstand.

The director's question

Are we destined to become the product of what happened to us, or can we choose something different?

Jackson Kibby, writer and director

Still from INERTIA: a lone figure in silhouette walks along a hilltop under a long cloud at dusk.

A film about breaking the cycle

One in four children in America is growing up without a father in the home.

U.S. Census Bureau

We made INERTIA for the young men living inside that number.

Behind the scenes

Made here, by the people who live here.

See the making of

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