Mike may always be wandering, but you’d hardly call him a man on the move. His stamping ground is modest, the strip of suburbia between his mom’s house in New Jersey and the pizza place where he works. Mike’s no great conversationalist and isn’t big on direction either, preferring to let things happen than making them happen himself.

Ted Fendt. Born in Philadelphia in 1989. He works as a filmmaker and translator. His translations from French into English include film criticism by Luc Moullet, Mireille Latil-le-Dantec, Emmanuel Siety, and Louis Seguin; and subtitles for films by Jean-Marie Straub, Alain Resnais, Marcel Hanoun, and Jean Epstein. He has directed three short films. Short Stay is his first feature film.