A grocery run. A commute. Planting a tree in the yard. These mundane moments became the raw material for something unexpected.

IT GOES THAT QUICK follows two families across eight years as filmmakers Ashley Connor and Joe Stankus blur the line between documentary and fiction. What began as a playful project, casting their own relatives in short films about everyday life, evolved into something deeper as the cameras kept rolling.

Set against strip malls and highways in the American Northeast, the 70-minute feature captures the texture of ordinary existence. But as years pass and the filmmakers keep shooting, those trivial routines start to mean something. The result is part time capsule, part meditation on why we pick up cameras in the first place.

Connor, a cinematographer nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for MADELINE’S MADELINE, brings her eye to HBO’s THE CHAIR COMPANY and features like REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES. Stankus, a Brooklyn writer/director whose shorts have played New York Film Festival and Rotterdam, makes his feature debut here.

The film premieres April 25 at MoMI’s First Look Festival, with both directors in attendance. For indie filmmakers wrestling with how to make something personal without a budget, this one’s worth watching. Sometimes the best stories are hiding in your parents’ driveway.