Sunday Short Theatre – Safety First

Covi-19 pandemic took everyone by surprise, changed our lives for the worst. Nearly 2 years on, no one expected the pandemic is still affecting everything and now Omicron variant. That new strain might be in its infancy, this week’s Sunday Short Theatre Safety First goes back to the beginning.

This 4 minute short comes from filmmaker/ motion designer John Robson started off as a topical satire about love and social distancing. It’s now grown into an deep exploration of solation, anxiety, and we start see light at the end of the tunnel, self doubt creeped in. Isolation has played a stumbling block that things wouldn’t get finished or even threaten life getting back to some normality. Until now isolation never been portrayed as something that blossom’s until now…

What do you do when live action production comes to a halt during a pandemic and you lose all of your actors? Make your own!

What started as a topical satire about love and social distancing in the time of Covid-19 evolved into a much deeper exploration of the isolation, anxiety, and self doubt that many of us have been left to face while on lockdown.

For many, the wall of the pandemic is a window that has separated us from the ones we love and any sense of the normalcy we once took for granted. It’s also a mirror held upon ourselves, forcing us in our time alone to reflect on our lives, actions, imperfections, demons, and overall mental health.

One cannot truly love the world and those closest to us without learning to love ourselves first.

The journey of Layla and Marcus is an homage to the first 599 days (and counting) of this journey towards self-acceptance.

Created using 3D-scanned actors and procedural-based effects to manifest and amplify each characters’ inner emotions.

Source: Film Shortage