Out in their patrol car one night at the beginning of Brandon Christensen’s Bodycam, Officers Jackson (Jaime M. Callica) and Bryce (Sean Rogerson) are called to a house where there is a ‘suspected 10-16’ in progress. That is police code for a domestic disturbance – a phrase that will come to resonate in a film…
Rob Grant’s This Too Shall Pass opens with Simon Benson (Maxwell Jackson) sitting, stern and bloody-faced, in the back of a police car – and explaining to Officer Harris (Chris Sandiford) how a kid from Syracuse, New York came to be under arrest in Ottawa, Canada without his parents, all to the synth pop accompaniment…
Rob Grant’s Harpoon opens with audio of a voice artist (Brett Gelman, Claire’s husband in Fleabag) being asked to do another take. His narration, delivered in an arch tone with some decidedly profane diction, summarises the three types of friendship outlined by Aristotle (of utility, of pleasure, of the good), before positing a fourth type,…
Desolate first published by Grolsch FilmWorks “Have you ever wondered if it would be better if all this sort of ended? Boom!” This is Chad (Jez Bonham), on his first, disastrous date since his long-term girlfriend Annie (Teagan Vincze) walked out on him. With Annie’s departure, Chad’s whole world has come to an end, leading…