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
Kerry International Film Festival (IRL) 2023