Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Frank Stiefel.

[3] It won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 90th Academy Awards.

[4][5] Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 is a film created from more than 20 hours of interviews between the film's subject, Mindy Alper, and director Frank Stiefel.

Alper is a visual artist who channels her inner anxiety, depression, trauma and other demons into vivid drawings and papier-mâché sculptures.

[6] The title comes from Alper, who says that one of the only situations in which she feels at home besides art is sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic.