A man checks machines while his soul goes through quality control.
Filmmaker Kevan Funk chronicles the lonely days and sleepless nights of a middle-aged safety inspector, whose malaise mirrors the decline of the industrial landscape around him.
Cinematography
Haunting Alberta landscapes that swallow the frame whole.
Direction
Funk's patient observation builds crushing weight in under 20 minutes.
Director
Kevan Funk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in rural Alberta during the 2010s oil slump, capturing a specific Canadian working-class grief rarely seen on screen.
Funk expanded these themes into his 2017 feature 'Hello Destroyer'; this short is the concentrated essence of that vision.
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