That Workman’s Arm

World premiere in competition at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2022

‘Struggling to hold his own life together, a standover man is sent to collect from a woman in debt. His usual tactics fail him as he is thrown off balance by her threadbare but rich existence and the two discover a connection that lays the foundations for hope.’

INFO

Short Film / 13mins / 2.39:1 Scope / NZ / 2022

In Association with The New Zealand Film Commission

Cast - Matthew Sunderland, Donogh Rees, Erroll Shand

Writer & Director - Simon London

Producers - Emma Mortimer, Simon London

Cinematographer - Adam Luxton

Art Director - Svet Mateev

Editor - Fauze Hassen

Original Music - Anné Kulonen

Sound Design - Maxwell Scott, Siim Skepast, Simon Panayi

“If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous set of sun; then against all mortal critics bear me out in it, thou just Spirit of Equality, which hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind!” - Herman Melville

Official Selection:

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (FR) 2022
Cannes Indie Short Awards (FR) 2022
Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival (NZ) 2023
Norwich International Film Festival (UK) 2023