The Job - Sci Fi Suspense Short Film

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7 жыл бұрын

www.nickblatt.com
In this slow burn suspense film, a washed-up cyclist gets a job requiring him to bike alone in a concrete room for hours. His stationary bicycle is wired from the rear wheel to the back wall. Jeff demands answers from his coworker, Bruce.
“Where do the wires go?” “Don’t ask questions.”
What’s on the other side of the wall?
The Job premiered at the Academy-Award qualifying festival, Hollyshorts, in the world famous Mann’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood Blvd. Additionally, the short also screened at the Anthology Film Archives as part of the New Filmmakers Festival.
Starring: Paul Sheehan & James Jelkin
Directed by Nick Blatt
Written by Erik VanBezooijen & Nick Blatt
Produced by David Goldberger // Nick Blatt // Bruce Ian // Susan Glickman
Director of Photography: Joseph DePasquale
Production Designer: Rachel Gerlach
Unit Production Manager: David Goldberger
Composer: Pedro Curvello
Sound Design & Re-Recording Mix: Mihir Chitale
1st Assistant Director: Peter Zachwieja
1st Assistant Camera: Christie Lietzell // Stephen Roll
Gaffer: Matt Morgan
Key Grip: Leo Purman
Grips: Zach lowry // Robert Newman // Cale Nicholas // Shaun Webber // Calum Shaw
Production Sound Mixers: Sam Yang // Theodoric Wells // Dominick Chang
Art Director: Jack breene
Set Design & Construction: Gerard Gerlach & Allegra Gerlach
Makeup: Kathryn Ruhl
Wardrobe & Makeup Assistant: Benjamin Sottak
Location Managers: Nicholas Metcalf // Elizabeth Arenberg // Sean Ruch // Jermaine Encarnacion // Kim Cunningham
Production Assistants: Caroline Poole // Brenda Wong // Emma Weiss // Tamara Johnson // Kadi Tsang
Co-starring: Boomer Tibbs // Fitz tim // Daniel Beason
Special Thanks: Laszlo Santha
“Only You” Performed by The Platters // Courtesy of Fred Balboni // Universal/Def Jam, You Dig It Records

Пікірлер: 222

@hal900x 5 жыл бұрын

I've been stuck in shitty high paying jobs that benefit wealthy people I never meet with questionable moral compasses. There are many millions of us out there. I see this as an allegory for that. You feel trapped by the money, but it's a huge relief when you do quit, though there is a price. Not quite as high a price as this man, but I understand the little smile on his face, and the desperate of the man who stays, knowing nothing else but to keep on that hamster wheel indefinitely.

@CHARLIE-MF-BROWN 5 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of what I've read about the people who worked on the Manhattan Project. Working full shifts daily in giant concrete factories with no idea of what they were actually doing. Absolute torture.

@tietjen666 5 жыл бұрын

Do not deviate from your assigned caste! They even have us enforcing their system on each other! Nice work! Thanks to everybody involved.

@moogybannahilstopaflingon6803 5 жыл бұрын

That’s a very, very clever flick for a 5 man crew and a push bike...respect!

@buggles_mcgee 6 жыл бұрын

Free gym membership plus 1 fiddy an hour!

@wizbangIWD 5 жыл бұрын

This one is just weird and trust me, I know weird. weird and I are old friends, we keep each other company on cold winter nights talking about how weird the other is !

@catweasle5737 5 жыл бұрын

This is good enough for Black Mirror. Excellent.

@danielhanawalt4998 2 жыл бұрын

Great film.I've worked a few factory jobs where you clock in, do the same thing for hours with a few short breaks and then clock out and do it all over again the next day and the next and...Spirit breaking jobs for one like me. Some can live their lives doing those kinds of jobs. I was never one.

@lesau.9205 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome short film. Great actors and I’m so freakin greatful that this isn’t like a lot of short films that leaves a person wondering what just happened and scratching their heads. It was a very satisfying complete compacted movie!!! Thank you

@That80sGuy1972 5 жыл бұрын

The dummy killed a great thing. If I was offered $150 an hour, I'd work that job in virtual isolation until I can't or I'm old enough to retire.

@Psymon-F-C 6 жыл бұрын

A very deep look into the world today... for us, the slaves are doing precisely what the guys in the film are doing... feeding the elite... and for what exactly?

@Windkisssed 5 жыл бұрын

Great concept. THANK YOU for an ending!!! Too many stories leave the viewer with more questions than enjoyment. This still left it up to the imagination but gave us enough to feel complete.

@bigcityjunglecatenvisageth1422 3 жыл бұрын

I would only understand that guys behaviour if he was locked in that room, trapped and forced into to doing the task. But he was not, and yet he was panicking and stressing himself out on overload.

@mauriciocastanheira2937

Wow! Im speechles. This short film is amazing, wonderfoul. Very good. My respects. Congratulations from Brasil

@elizabethgaspodnetich4322 6 жыл бұрын

I don't know if I would ask to many questions if all I had to do is ride a bike all day for $150 per hour. Very good video guys, I always enjoy your videos!