Max Landis made a short film of Haley Joel Osment getting slapped

The video, which Landis insists in the accompanying behind-the-scenes footage isn't meant as a parody of Tatia Pileva’s First Kiss, but as an exploration of a different kind of intimacy, places many of Landis’ friends and acquaintances—including Haley Joel Osment—in front of the camera with a simple direction: Slap each other.

What follows is surprisingly sweet, with people negotiating, expressing glee, apologizing in advance, and sometimes just nailing each other in the face. Despite the potentially nasty subject matter, the whole thing is infused with joy, with slappees laughing as hard if not harder than slappers in the moments after a strike.