Giovanni Ribisi grows meat in his bathtub and it's somehow the saddest thing you'll see today.
Tommy, a dogged lab tech of industrial food who, though once known in the business as "The Apostate", seems to have rededicated himself to producing scientifically engineered meat. A film about a dystopian future rife with genetic engineering, corporate corruption of government and rampant infection, is really about Tommy’s loneliness and the at-home experiment he conducts.
Production
Gross-beautiful practical meat-lab aesthetics on micro-budget.
Acting
Ribisi's hollow-eyed desperation in every cold fluorescent frame.
Director
Luke Scott
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Luke Scott is Ridley Scott's son, and this short was produced through RSA Films as a proof-of-concept for larger worldbuilding—note the Weyland Industries DNA.
The 'Apostate' nickname and Tommy's fall from grace mirror real-world whistleblowers in agribusiness, making his bathtub redemption creepily biblical.
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