During the busy run-up to Christmas, a single-take snapshot of the immense stress and skills of a talented head chef reveals that things are about to burst behind the restaurant's flash façade.
Direction
One unbroken take that builds to genuine panic.
Acting
Stephen Graham's simmering volcano of a performance.
Editing
There isn't any. That's the entire point.
Director
Philip Barantini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in one take at an actual working restaurant in Birmingham during service hours.
Inspired Barantini's 2021 feature of the same name, but this original short maintains tighter, more suffocating intimacy.
GB
