An emotionally repressed and traumatised young man is challenged by disruptive outsiders to face up to his delusion, and risks losing the final bond to his dead mother.
Acting
Connor Newall's face does everything dialogue refuses to.
Direction
Shaun Hughes squeezes feature-length devastation into 18 minutes.
Cinematography
Grey, cramped spaces mirror a mind trapped in looped trauma.
Director
Shaun Hughes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Connor Newall was primarily a model with almost no acting experience; Hughes cast him for his naturally guarded, unreadable quality.
Funded through Creative Scotland and screened at Glasgow Short Film Festival, it's part of a wave of uncompromising Scottish shorts examining working-class male mental health.
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