Tumble Dry is a short narrative film shot on 16mm black and white film in a Lower East Side laundromat in February 1997, now seeking completion funding to reach festival audiences nearly three decades after it was made. The film follows a man nine months sober through a single night of waiting — for his clothes to dry, for the courage to speak to a stranger, for his life to restart. It is a document of a neighborhood that no longer exists and a portrait of the fragile, ordinary work of staying present.