Sundance Film Festival

“It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.”
-Mum

Next Sunday is a long time to wait to watch the short film Spider, which will be streaming for free on the Sundance 10 Shorts 10 Days page on Jan. 27. If you’re like me and you want to open all your presents early, the entire movie is embedded at the end of this post, courtesy Director Nash Edgerton and the millionaire boy geniuses who invented YouTube.

Something must be in the water Down Under because this is the second shocking black comedy from Australia in as many days. (Spencer Susser’s I Love Sarah Jane was covered yesterday.) Shot on location in Sydney, Spider was filmed on 16mm stock in 1:2.35, and later transferred to 35mm. Edgerton himself plays Jack, who is in the midst of a pretty serious fight with his girlfriend while she’s driving them both around the city.

The camera’s POV stays with Jack as he heads into a convenience store to buy some things in hopes of placating her. Watching him scan the shop quickly is like actually seeing the thought processes of a typical male (not that I would know anything about that). Since this is a short film and we don’t want to ruin the ending, we’ll just stop any mention of plot right there. Read On and see the entire film at Scene-Stealers.com