Augusta Dayton

A lexicographer’s work is never done, and writer Karl Ove Knausgaard describes language as ‘a social activity.’ In this short film by director Augusta Dayton, students of the 826LA writing program provide their own unique definitions of some quite familiar words.

James, a boy with an over-active imagination, tricks his tutor into spending their first session searching for his runaway twin brother who doesn't actually exist.

A lexicographer’s work is never done, and writer Karl Ove Knausgaard describes language as ‘a social activity.’ In this short film by director Augusta Dayton, students of the 826LA writing program provide their own unique definitions of some quite familiar words.

A lexicographer’s work is never done, and writer Karl Ove Knausgaard describes language as ‘a social activity.’ In this short film by director Augusta Dayton, students of the 826LA writing program provide their own unique definitions of some quite familiar words.

James, a boy with an over-active imagination, tricks his tutor into spending their first session searching for his runaway twin brother who doesn't actually exist.