Silent film meets 80s freak show: no words, all chaos, one very angry landlord.
Imagine a surreal narrative, without dialogue, in a style reminiscent of the 1920s silent era and seen through the lens of moving voyeuristic camera that records the odd whereabouts of an unseemly group of marginal tenants. An aging homosexual and his drug-addicted lover, a couple of fitness-freak yuppies, an eccentric Haitian lady and her son, a punkish, crazy diva, as well as other bizarre and incongruous characters. united to prevent their eviction. Watch them unravel in anarchy while they fight against the foul manoeuvres of an ingenious but nasty landlord and his accomplice who wants them evicted once and for all.
Direction
Shbib's roving camera turns exploitation into anthropology.
Costume
Punk diva meets Haitian mystic meets yuppie aerobics realness.
Practical Effects
Zero budget, maximum texture—every grimy apartment corner breathes.
Director
Bashar Shbib
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shbib was a Syrian-Canadian filmmaker working in Montreal's underground scene; this is outsider cinema made by a literal outsider documenting other outsiders.
The 'voyeuristic camera' isn't just style—it's the film's moral position, implicating viewers in the spectacle of poverty.
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