Automaton
Synopsis
Unable to live with murder, Sarah commits suicide whilst Karl, with the telepathic link still intact, experiences a digital first person perspective of what it is to die.
Automaton is a contemporary re-imagining of Classic Horror, which digitally plots the path of a marked and maddened Peeping Tom.
Details
- Year
- 2007
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 10 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
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William Sinclair
- Producer
- Carol Murphy
- Editor
- Andy Hague
- Screenwriter
- William Sinclair
- Director of Photography
- Fredrik Callinggard
- Production Designer
- Caroline Storey, Alison Adams
- Sound
- Thomas Joyce, Paul Cameron
- Composer
- Dead Next Door
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
The Picture Press
3rd Floor60 Berwick Street
London W1F 8SU
UK
T +44 (0)20 7287 1664
info@thepicturepress.co.uk
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