We are so excited to announce our short film will make it’s world premiere Interrobang Film Fest at the Des Moines Arts Festival.
Walter Day is considered the father of eSports. At the ripe age of 70 he decided to record his first album. Walter Day – Hold Me (Official Video) is a short-form visual meditation on love, loss, and transcendence, inspired by the life and music of Walter Day.
The film traces an emotional arc that begins in memory and fragmentation—echoes of past lives, missed connections, and the quiet weight of heartbreak. At its center is a deeply personal story: a relationship that shaped the course of a man’s life, ultimately leading him toward a lifetime of artistic creation. In the aftermath of loss, over 136 songs were written—not as escape, but as transformation.
The piece leans intentionally into melancholy as a passage point. Rather than avoiding discomfort, it invites the viewer to sit within it—reflecting a Buddhist perspective that joy and suffering are inseparable, and that each moment holds the potential for transcendence. The early stillness gives way to light, suggesting that meaning is not found in avoiding pain, but in moving through it.
Rooted in both autobiographical truth and universal experience, the film becomes a meditation on what we do with what we’ve lived. It offers a simple but enduring idea: that even in loss, something luminous can emerge—and that transformation is always within reach.
Director Biography - H.D. Harmsen, P. T. Fleming, Dan Welk
Bottle Cap Creek Films is a creative collective built on the belief that the most powerful stories are the ones you can feel.
Led by H.D. Harmsen, Patrick Tape Fleming, and Dan Welk, the group operates at the intersection of film, music, photography, and writing, crafting work that moves like a song and lingers like a memory. Each project is approached as a living composition where image, sound, and story are inseparable, designed to pull audiences through the full sonic spectrum of human emotion.