A burning piano in the desert and you're not even drunk yet.
A surrealist neo-noir following Jonny, an apathetic man who faces an involuntary evaluation of his life after awakening in a surrealist fever dream.
Cinematography
California desert as liminal hellscape—gorgeous and deeply wrong.
Practical Effects
That burning piano is real fire, real madness.
Director
Eric J. Liddle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The burning piano was a functional instrument set ablaze in a single take; no CGI was used despite the 21-minute runtime constraints.
Liddle shot the desert sequences during California's 2019 wildfire season, lending the sky's unnatural orange hue without color grading—accidental production design that mirrors Jonny's internal combustion.
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