They’re Outside first published by VODzilla.co They’re Outside, the feature debut of Sam Casserly and Airell Anthony Hayles, layers its central narrative in a succession of frames. On the one hand, it is the latest (and last) video made by YouTube pop psychologist Max Spencer (Tom Wheatley) with his girlfriend Nicole (Nicole Miners), as he…
As the title suggests, game playing is key to Macarena García Lenzi and Martín Blousson’s Rock, Paper and Scissors (Piedra, papel y tijera), from a screenplay by the directors and their co-writers Julieta García Lenzi and Valentín Javier Diment (The Rotten Link). In a multi-storey house in contemporary Argentina, María José (Valeria Giorcelli) and her…
First published by Little White Lies as part of my Cinema Psychotronicum column Conrad (Timothy T. McKinney), brother of Anna (Beth Riesgraf), keeps calling her ‘Birdy’ – and though he means it affectionately, the childish nickname just annoys Anna. Maybe it reminds her of her state of arrested infantilisation, locked into a relationship of interdependence with…