INERTIA
Still from INERTIA: a man in a dark hooded sweatshirt sits against the siding of a house holding up a small dark rectangular object in a beam of light, deep shadow filling the left side.

A Jackson Kibby film

You cannot outrun what you came from.

Watch the trailer2 minutes

01The story

The story

Oliver is a haunted man trying to outrun visions of his past. When he discovers the identity of his father, he is forced to confront the harsh reality of where he comes from, and the terrifying trajectory of where he could be heading.

Tense, hallucinatory, and precisely composed.

Still from INERTIA: a double exposure of a shirtless man lying back with his eyes half closed, laid over a dim kitchen where a silhouetted figure stands at a counter and bottles crowd a table.

The mind is the crime scene.

02The players

The players

  • Portrait of Drae Stockton.

    Drae Stockton

    Oliver

  • Portrait of Marvin Ritchie.

    Marvin Ritchie

    Troy Valentino

  • Portrait of Gloria Bueno.

    Gloria Bueno

    Oliver's Mom

  • Portrait of Brian Billica.

    Brian Billica

    Studio Owner

  • Portrait of Susan Wilder.

    Susan Wilder

    Therapist

03Behind the lens

Jackson Kibby holding a cinema camera on a night exterior.
Jackson Kibby

Jackson Kibby

Jackson Kibby is a San Antonio filmmaker. INERTIA is his first feature film.

I made it to explore a question a lot of people wrestle with: are we destined to become the product of what happened to us, or can we choose something different?

I believe our circumstances can shape us, but they don't have to define us.

Writer and director
Jackson Kibby
Cinematography and color
Christian Stryder
Production companies
Stryde Studios and Simply Rosy Productions

04The road so far

The road so far

  1. San Antonio premiere

    To a ticketed audience, with a cast and crew Q and A.

  2. Austin International Film Festival

    Winner, Narrative Feature

  3. Austin Spotlight Film Festival

    Winner, Best Film

  4. This winter

    The new scenes

    We plan to shoot the new scenes with our original cast, taking the film from 60 minutes to about 80.

  5. Second quarter of 2027

    The finished feature

    Our target for delivering the full length film.

05Frames

From the film

  • Still from INERTIA: a bearded man in a gray fedora, sunglasses and a blue jacket sits with his hands folded behind a desk with a pink stripe and a row of lit bulbs.
  • Still from INERTIA: a woman with platinum blonde hair lies curled on a floor holding a glass liquor bottle against her chest, in dim blue and amber light.
  • Still from INERTIA: a man in a dark hooded sweatshirt stands among silhouetted people under pink and purple party lights.
  • Still from INERTIA: a man in a flamingo print shirt stands in a doorway with warm string lights behind him, seen past the dark shoulder of a man in the foreground.
  • Still from INERTIA: a woman in a hospital gown sits in a hospital bed holding a bundle wrapped in a blue blanket, a monitor clip on her finger and a bright curtained window behind her.
  • Still from INERTIA: a hooded figure seen from behind walks along a city sidewalk at night past a lit pharmacy sign, a man in a light hat walking ahead.
  • Still from INERTIA: a person in a hooded jacket and boots sits on a blanket against a plywood board covered in graffiti, a dark bag on their lap, with a keyboard to one side and red gas cans to the other.
  • Still from INERTIA: a woman with long dark hair looks up and to the side in bright backlight, a figure in a dark jacket in the foreground at the right.
  • Still from INERTIA: a woman in a pink feathered coat tilts her head back with her eyes closed, holding a bottle beside her face under blue light, a person behind her.
Press and stills

06The score

Cover of the INERTIA original motion picture soundtrack: the white title above a figure in white light on black. Music by Jeremy Brosch and Trevor Najera.
Original motion picture soundtrack

Hear the film before you see it.

The original score and soundtrack are available now on Spotify.

Listen on Spotify

07Help finish it

INERTIA got made. Help us finish it.

Help finish the filmSee how it was made