Short film

Pillow Talk

1991 · 18 min

A claustrophobic, disorienting slide into urban paranoia, where warped time and sickly light make ordinary apartment life feel like a waking bad dream.

Directed by: Danny Plotnick

Overview: Extreme manipulation of filmic time and space combined with an impressionistic lighting scheme help create an urban spaces nightmare. A woman living by herself is having a hard time, downstairs the neighbours are fighting, next door they're having extremely loud sex, an old lady's stealing her clothes in the laundry room, and worst of all, she's no better than the rest.

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Directed by: Danny Plotnick

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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
madness
identity
sexuality
loneliness
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	5
Humour	2
Realism	5
Romance	1
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	5

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Directed by: Danny Plotnick
Runtime: 18 min

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