Director Matt Hulse
Half Lives Fiona Staniland, Sarah Beauvoisin, Mark Bishop, Sam Dore, Nick Currey
Music Daniel Padden
Editor Matt Hulse

An intense, visceral and neurotic study of the desk-bound being.

A neurotic stop-frame analysis of the daily torture of the desk-bound being, freeze-frame tensions disrupting the film’s surface and material.

Isolated office workers perform gruelling and surrealistic routines in this intense, neurotic study of the desk-bound being, pushing Super 8 mm filmmaking to new extremes.

Set against a haunting score and visceral soundtrack, isolated office workers perform gruelling, pointless and surrealistic routines in this intense, neurotic study of the desk-bound being. Striking monochromatic photography, enriched by fleeting passages of bold colour and fearless splicing, push Super 8 mm filmmaking to new extremes.

Director Matt Hulse
Half Lives Fiona Staniland, Sarah Beauvoisin, Mark Bishop, Sam Dore and Nick Currey
Prop Makers Guy Bishop, Tadhg O'Sullivan
Production Manager Lucy Brown
Stills Alice Nelson
Music Daniel Padden
Editor Matt Hulse

The film is a fleeting and intense exploration of large, cold, isolated office blocks and lone, alienated workers, stuck in bizarre routines in a nasty, grey, oppressive city. You may have heard of lone soldiers in the jungle who are still fighting the Vietnam war when it’s been over for 30 years? Our characters here are similar, like workers carrying on at their desk in desperation after some terrible urban disaster. Meanwhile, the computers and offices have evolved and are able to move/change/dance – this is where the animation comes in!