🎬 Quarantine Roommate – A Character Study Series by Kyle Holbrook
"Different people. Same walls. One shared world."
Directed and conceived by internationally acclaimed muralist, sculptor, and visual storyteller Kyle Holbrook, Quarantine Roommate is a genre-defying film and episodic art series that captures the surreal, isolating, and deeply human experience of the global lockdowns.
In this emotionally rich and visually intimate series, Holbrook turns his artistic eye inward—away from public walls and into private spaces—to reveal the layered realities of people from drastically different walks of life, all confined under the weight of quarantine.
Each episode introduces us to a new character:
A luxury fashion model stripped of glamor, finding identity in solitude.
An immigrant mother navigating fear of deportation and economic uncertainty.
A spiritual seeker meditating through silence and paranoia.
A blue-collar worker coping with job loss and rising mental health strain.
A once high-powered executive now reduced to stillness and reflection.
Different backgrounds—racially, socially, economically, spiritually, religiously—all reduced to the same set of four walls. But it’s in that sameness that the series finds its power.
Holbrook doesn’t just document the quarantine—he dissects it, sculpting each scene like a visual poem. The film is marked by long observational shots, minimal dialogue, and raw, improvised emotion. Characters are not portrayed as heroes or victims, but as humans—flawed, poetic, silent, breaking, healing.
🎨 A Director with a Murals-to-Mindset Vision
Kyle Holbrook, best known for painting over 870 murals worldwide—often involving communities affected by violence, poverty, or social injustice—brings the same socially conscious lens and nuanced character work to the screen. A quote from Holbrook explains it best:
“I’ve always painted people’s stories on buildings. This time, I wanted to paint their minds on film. Everyone became a roommate to the world during quarantine—locked inside but emotionally exposed. Quarantine Roommate is about that intimacy, that quiet unraveling. It’s an artistic extension of the work I’ve done on the streets, just using video instead of brushes.”
From Paris to Pittsburgh, Holbrook’s art has long centered on inclusion, truth-telling, and human dignity. Quarantine Roommate continues that legacy in cinematic form, showing how humanity echoes through silence, subtle motion, and the shared psychological architecture of isolation.
