At dusk, two women stand close together in front of a softly glowing marquee sign blurred in the background. Warm golden lights create a romantic, cinematic atmosphere.

Waste Time: A Complicated Love Story

LIVt 2025 0:07:58 Min English English Open Captions United States

Waste Time follows a queer couple, a Black woman and an Indian woman, through the fragments: first date, first kiss, first fight. When one woman looks back on what they had, the film shifts into a music-driven sequence asking whether love is worth coming back to.

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Synopsis

Through a series of intimate vignettes, we follow a queer couple , a Black woman and an Indian woman, as they experience the beauty and fragility of love. From the spark of their first date to the quiet tenderness of their first kiss, and finally, the ache of their first fight, their story unfolds in fragments of memory and emotion. The film culminates in a music-driven sequence where one woman reflects on what was lost and questions whether love is worth returning to. Blending narrative cinema with music video elements, this short explores the rhythm of heartbreak, memory, and rediscovery through a deeply personal lens.

Screenings

ENCORE: Desire & Defiance

Watch anytime between September 11-21. The evening block. Friendship breakups that hit mid-workweek. Passionate dreams that arrive when you stop expecting them. A cockroach that changes everything. Church…

Friday, September 11, 2026
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Online Encore ENCORE: Desire & Defiance

Desire & Defiance

Seven films about queer love queer love in all its messy, tender, hilarious, and unexpected forms.

Saturday, June 13, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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In-person Desire & Defiance

Content Warnings

Flashing images Emotional distress in a relationship

Specific Themes

Queerness Relationships Romance Romantic affiliation

Credits

Director
LIVt
Screenwriter
LIVt
Producer
LIVt, Elise Walker
Cast
Devika Vyas, Olivia Thomas
Cinematographer
Sandra Garcia

About Filmmaker(s)

Olivia Thomas—aka LIV— is a Pacific Northwest Native (to be specific, from the 253) who at her core, values creativity, living freely, and the service of others. Keeping her family and friends at the forefront of all that drives her, she uses her love and obsession with music, mixed with a knack for word play, to bring what she feels is a “dope sound and vision” to her audience. Mimicking the northwest weather, she describes her music as, laidback, sometimes dark, but always soulful. Her music is a reflection on love, what it means to be black and outspoken and as well as what it takes to get out of your own way and be whoever you want. Be damned anyone else.

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