16 minutes. One platform. A child's eyes see everything adults miss.
An eight year-old girl waits with her mother for a delayed train. Through her eyes we observe the waiting crowds and their reactions to the situation.
Direction
Oudney's patient framing turns mundane waiting into poetry
Acting
Bianca Nicholas carries every frame with unforced wonder
Director
Jackie Oudney
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Oudney shoots entirely from the girl's height, forcing adult viewers to literally look up at a world designed for grown-ups.
Premiered at Cannes Critics' Week, part of a late-90s boom in British social realist shorts that rejected dialogue-heavy kitchen sink drama for visual storytelling.
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