You've got to watch this incredible, unconventional short film called The Last Ten. I loved this thing. It's beautifully shot and the story is intriguing. It was written and directed by David Higgs, and the story shows us the last ten minutes of a man's life. I absolutely love how the director played with the lighting and sound in the short. This is the kind of film that I think Alfred Hitchcock would be proud of. Here's brief synopsis:
A nameless man arrives home one evening, he steps in from the pouring rain and contemplates the towering stairwell that separates him from his apartment. He begins his ascent, unaware of the impending disaster that awaits him at the top. He has ten minutes left to live. His wife has even less.
Once you start watching this you wont be able to stop. It's just so damn good! ...
A nameless man arrives home one evening, he steps in from the pouring rain and contemplates the towering stairwell that separates him from his apartment. He begins his ascent, unaware of the impending disaster that awaits him at the top. He has ten minutes left to live. His wife has even less.
Once you start watching this you wont be able to stop. It's just so damn good! ...
- 3/28/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Why Watch? We start high, impossibly high, staring down into a stairwell as a living trench coat opens the door and kicks on the lights. What follows is a test of will, stretching out the time it takes to boil pasta to its breaking point with a noirish angle that Hitchcock might bust a gut at. David Higgs‘ short film The Last Ten is clever in its execution — from toying with lighting for intensity to forcing the imagination to do heavy lifting with off-screen events. It’s also excruciating in the way it refuses to give you what you want. It offers no quarter on a traditional front, on a framing front, or on an editing front, but it ends up like cringing excellence. Like being given an amazing dessert and being allowed only a toothpick to eat it with. Fortunately, while waiting for the sweet stuff, it offers some truly impressive sepia tones laced with some...
- 3/27/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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