Short film
James
2014 · 15 min
A quiet, uneasy period piece that turns a historical footnote into a tense moral bargain over a child's body.
- Directed by
- Claire Oakley
- Starring
- Morgan Watkins, Jack Hollington, Anna Koval
- Overview
- Gloucestershire, England, 1796. A poor day labourer is offered work but must first let his son be used in a medical experiment. Based on the story of James Phipps, the eight-year-old boy used by Dr Edward Jenner to test the world's first smallpox vaccine.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Class, power, parenthood, science
- Content
- Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Claire Oakley
- Starring
- Morgan Watkins, Jack Hollington, Anna Koval
