Project Detail

Ex Stasis

Jake Astbury

Synopsis

Ex Stasis is a short film based on the recount from an unknown source of a traumatic memory told through fragmented image and text. The film is framed within the confines of a domestic interior, revealed through motion, progressive frames and broken text to tell this dark narrative of an external threat that invades the home of a couple and their cats.

The story is constructed in monochromatic and colour images, producing a foreboding domestic interior of disaccord, frightened cats and human panic.

Details

Year: 2010
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 4 mins 30 secs
Format: Digital Media (Stills Photography)
Director: Jake Astbury
Producer: HJX Films
Editor: Helena Mitchell
Screenwriter: Jake Astbury, Helena Mitchell
Director of Photography: Jake Astbury
Sound: Helena Mitchell
Composer: Kouroshi Dini

Genre

Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

HJX Films

178 Woolwich Road
London, SE7 7RA
UK

T +44(0)7974 944462

info@hjxfilms.com

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