Outside Noise screened in the Online Shorts Block #2 at Panic Fest, 28 March-6 April 2025 Layla (Bobby Rainsbury) is in bed, surrounded by the detritus of her daily life: her phone pinging with text messages, the wall behind her headboard covered in post-it notes. So, desperate to switch off – but self-evidently not quite…
The Harbinger first published by SciFiNow The Harbinger is a film of virus, infection and masks. It is set in the early wave of the pandemic when there was no vaccine and the Coronavirus was decimating New York City’s elderly and middle-aged populations. Monique ‘Mo’ Cartwright (Gabby Beans, excellent) and her brother Lyle (Myles Walker),…
I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone first published by EyeforFilm, 14 Nov, 2007 Although it is the eighth feature of Tsai Ming-Liang, I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone is the first to be set in Malaysia, the land of his birth – and while all the Taiwan-based director’s films have deployed impassively static camerawork, languid…
Come True first published by VODzilla.co “So we really just show up and sleep?” asks Sarah (a dreamy performance from Julia Sarah Stone, Allure, 2017) in Come True, directed and co-written (with Daniel Weissenberger) by Anthony Scott Burns (Our House, 2018). Sarah has just signed up for a ‘sleep clinic’, where she will be paid…