Eleven minutes. One pylon. A family implosion you'll never unsee.
A field. A gang. A gun. A frightened boy. His brave sister. Their determined mother. And a towering steel obelisk overseeing it all. 'Pylon' is about fractious family relationships, the horrors siblings subject each other to and the indelible marks they leave.
Direction
Blackburn stretches eleven minutes into an eternity of dread.
Acting
Child performances that cut deeper than most Oscar bait.
Cinematography
That pylon looms like a silent judge.
Director
Barnaby Blackburn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The pylon itself is a character—British rural infrastructure as witness to working-class collapse, a motif Blackburn returns to in his wider body of work.
Finnegan and Lynes had never acted before this; Blackburn found them through local theatre workshops in the Cotswolds.
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