Two widowers. Twelve minutes. Zero words. Maximum emotional damage.
An oddly comical and touching meditation on suburban masculinity as two burly, aging men negotiate grief, rage and forgiveness without exchanging a word. It’s a tale of two men bound together by a death but dealing with it in very different ways.
Acting
Brumpton and Baroo say everything with shoulders and silence.
Direction
Tuna trusts the audience to read bodies, not dialogue.
Director
Julian Tuna
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Australian short films exploring suburban male isolation, where the outback myth crashes into cul-de-sac reality.
The 12-minute runtime mirrors grief's cruel compression—hours of feeling crushed into minutes of apparent stillness.
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