Project Detail

Automaton

Synopsis

Karl uses a form of electronic telepathy to spy on his ex-lover, Sarah. Her apartment block is remote, badly lit and in a state of redevelopment. Karl ensconces himself outside in the shadows and uses a radio device to scan the cerebral bandwidth of those in the block until he painfully tunes into Sarah's mind. When he finds her with Paul he uses his electronic puppetry to force her to kill this new lover.

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 film: Shorts
Running time: 10 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: 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

Genre

Horror Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

The Picture Press

3rd Floor
60 Berwick Street
London W1F 8SU
UK

T +44 (0)20 7287 1664

info@thepicturepress.co.uk

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