

Imagine drowning in your own ego—literally. This 23-minute fever dream dares you to look away.
Various characters appear stranded on a beach buried under large piles of their own memorabilia and self-importance.
Direction
Kötting's grotesque visual poetry at its most concentrated.
Production
The sheer physical spectacle of piled memorabilia as metaphor.
Acting
Sean Lock's pre-comedy fame buried-alive commitment.

Director
Andrew Kötting
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was director Andrew Kötting's breakthrough short, establishing his signature style of grotesque British tableaux years before his feature 'Gallivant'.
Sean Lock appears here years before becoming a beloved UK comedian; his 'buried under importance' role became eerily meta given his later self-deprecating persona.