There’s no time to explain Ben bumps into a mysterious man on his way to work. He is handed a box and asked to guard it with no explanation given. He starts seeing and hearing things that aren't there. He futilely tries to run away from the hallucinations. When he finally decides to open up the box he is in for the shock of his life.
Written and Directed by
Nikki Shyuan (Lee Shin Shyuan)
CAST
Ben
Johnny Choy
Man in Boxers
Suraj Chelvam
Produced by
Nikki Shyuan
Aaron Wong Ky
Director of Photography
Aaron Wong Ky
Assistant Director
Aaron Wong Ky
Boom Operator
Ng Pui Wah
Drone operator
Aaron Wong Ky
Production Assistant
Ng Pui Wah
Wong Zean Ying
Make-up and Wardrobe
Wong Zean Ying
Nikki Shyuan
Prop Master
Aaron Wong Ky
Editor
Nikki Shyuan
Colorists
Aaron Wong Ky
Nikki Shyuan
VFX by
Kent Lee
Nikki Shyuan
Soon Foon
Poster By
Wong Zean Ying
Sound Designed by
Nikki Shyuan
Music
Gotham - Filmstro Pro
Are you Sleeping, Brother John?
Sound Mixer
Nikki Shyuan
Special Thanks (alphabetical order)
Alyaa Afiqah Azman
Choo Tun Meng
Diyana Chan
Eric Hu
Henry Link Choong How
Johnny Choy
Hew Chi Yan
Kent Lee
Loo Foong May
Maxine Chong
Mohd Effendy bin Harjoh
Ng Kwok Yong
Ng Pui Wah
Penny Chong
Postfellas Sdn Bhd
Ritya Vignesh
Samantha Tan
Soon Foon
Suraj Chelvam
Suraj Bhudur
Sudasan Ravichandran
The Rental House Sdn Bhd
Wong Zean Ying
Director's Commentary (SPOILERS)
I've been looking for a way to stay off the creative rut.
Something to help me feel more like a film student again. So within 3 week, before the submission for a local short filmmaking competition, I with the help of a few close friends, made this. The theme for competition was "uncharted".
And this was something that was establish, at least some of the main core and elements of the story, was written after a haze from recovering from food poisoning. It's about sleep deprivation. The End. (Ironically, I loss some sleep during the post production of this short.) At least that was the story I wanted to tell. I really hope i got some people who interpreted that way. It was inspired by the absurdity from some of the videos I've seen from Film Riot and Corridor Digital. What if you're so sleep deprived that it stopped you from thinking twice before taking care of an object that isn't yours.
A week after rushing it off for submission, finally out of the rush and daze, the loop holes and critiques starts pouring in even though i initial objective was to finish it. It was to make sure it was done even though it wasn't the best goddamn short you have ever seen. So many loop holes presented itself during the editing phase. But again, the time constraints during the production of this was so ever so present. This was the very best I could have done.
I really hope that this will be the start of many more films(hopefully), exploring the ideas of the mind and also something
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