Filmmaker Statement

When I was in med-school, the morgue rotation held a particular sense of foreboding for me and my colleagues. It was located in the basement of the hospital, which could only be accessed by a lift, and the people who worked there seemed strange. They were desensitised. It was a place stripped of anything ‘natural’, only cold metal and tile. The coroner viewed the cadavers that came to him more as mannequins than people. Sometimes he would comment on their appearance in uncomfortable ways. His attitude always struck me as so inhuman, and it formed the inspiration for this story. I wanted to make a film that explored that dissonance in emotion. The characters in my film can express themselves physically, but their emotional life is transactional and blunt; Mark loves Angela and will do anything to please her. Angela is willing to use this against him to her own ends. But there are deeper feelings of love and loneliness at play, bubbling under the surface.