Your phone already owns you—this 15-minute nightmare shows what happens when the government does too.
Based on recent news events and set in the year 2037, SHADOWS is a cautionary tale, a modern day Orwellian style vision of the future. The short sci-fi film depicts a UK government using all digital technology for surveillance and control over the general population, becoming a totalitarian state. We join our lead characters, Lee and Jess on the brink of a revolution.
Direction
Armstrong squeezes feature-level dread into 15 tight minutes
Cinematography
Bleak near-future UK that looks depressingly achievable
Acting
Sachon and Georgia sell revolution in glances, not speeches
Director
Luke Armstrong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 2016, Shadows anticipated UK's Investigatory Powers Act debates and feels eerily predictive post-2020s protest policing.
Phil Dunster's jogger cameo predates his Ted Lasso fame by years—blink and you'll miss future Jamie Tartt energy.
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