Staircase Snails

Staircase Snails is a short documentary that observes snails and slugs as they move across a set of steps in the aftermath of rain. With a runtime of two minutes, the film focuses on these small creatures exploring the wet surface, offering a close look at a brief and ordinary moment in nature.

The film was directed, written and produced by Jacob Bernardino, and released on May 13, 2025. It comes from FlipBookStudios. It sits between two of Bernardino's other 2025 releases, Marriage Counseling and Shadowing, which followed in 2026, and arrives several years after his 2019 film Torment, placing it within a run of features and shorts he made in the mid-2020s.

As a documentary short, the film presents its subject without narration or commentary, relying on the imagery of the rain-soaked steps and the animals crossing them.