Our Exam | An exploration of the eternal internal

Soon to be legal name change | Tiffany Smith “Finley Ryan Multee”

My vision for film began at 5 years old on the playground. I remember being in Kindergarten, not socializing but curious and observant. I wondered around the playground, allowing myself to take myself where I wanted to go. There was an open area, a dirt emptiness of nothing, I walked around it, creating a film in my head. 

I've followed that my entire life.  Now, in NYC just shy of 4 years, a 14+ creative career, I created my first film. 

Following the passing of David Lynch, it surfaced. My vision grew but I knew I didn't want it to be about me, I wanted to connect. 

I went into myself, no TV, no social life, just me in my apartment from late October 2025 - mid February 2026. Complete isolation, just me and my film. 

I knew that, this vision, this film, spoke of an internal compass, an internal dialogue, an internal world. I knew it wasn't just me, the human condition, we all have this world locked within ourselves, eternally. 

An eternal internal world. What is it? Our energy? Our mind? What we've been told about ourselves? What we think others think of us? Our own..... stuff? Why are we like this? Are we examining too much or not enough? Do we navigate it with engagement and nurturing or do we learn when internal is too internal. Where does external and internal really exist for us? Are we just in an eternal internal? 

I want my film to allow people to feel a shift within themselves. Not to tell the audience what to think or believe, just to be. 

SEE BELOW “The Making of” audio paired with a visual.

The visual is NOT the film itself. It is a portion of typewriter footage shot for the film.