12 minutes. One hole. Zero explanations. You'll need therapy.
A skilled workman digs a perfect hole in a cracked earthen plain in an endless warehouse, a series of well-dressed people come and sit on comfortable couches offering contradictory opinions, and the job gradually unravels.
Direction
Solomon turns a hole into existential dread — masterclass in minimalism
Writing
Dialogue so banally cruel it hurts; every line a tiny paper cut
Acting
McKenzie's silent suffering speaks volumes without a word
Director
James Solomon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in a single warehouse location in Victoria, Australia with a skeleton crew — the cracked earth was practical, not VFX, making McKenzie's physical performance genuinely punishing.
Premiered at Melbourne International Film Festival 2020, riding a wave of 'pandemic shorts' that interrogated work and isolation — but Solomon wrote it pre-COVID, making its prescience genuinely spooky.
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