Room 8 (film)

Room 8
Directed by James W. Griffiths
Produced by Sophie Venner
Written by James W. Griffiths based on an original idea and script by Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Starring
Edited by Michael Aaglund
Release date
  • 2013 (2013)
Language

Room 8 is a 2013 short film written and directed by James W. Griffiths.[1] On February 2014, this film has won the 67th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) as the best short film.[2]

Synopsis

A prisoner, Ives, (Tom Cullen) is escorted by soldiers through the grounds of a compound surrounded by razor wire. It is clear that he has been brutalised and the setting appears to be a Soviet-era prison; his captors speak in Russian. In a cell, bare but for a desk and bunkbeds, a seated, bespectacled man, Shears, (Michael Gould) drops a strangely jerking matchbox into the desk drawer and pushes it closed. Ives is locked into the cell with Shears and the pair have a stilted conversation, in English (and both with English accents). Shears is reluctant to engage with his cellmate at all, until Ives becomes fascinated by a wooden red box on the lower bunk. Despite being warned not to by Shears, Ives opens it to discover an exact replica of the cell in miniature within – and the ceiling of the cell has opened along with the opening of the box. Ives is astonished to find that the tiny 'replica' appears to actually somehow be the cell. He is able to see both himself and Shears inside. Experimenting, Ives puts his hand into the box – and his own giant hand comes down into the cell. Realising that this dimensional miracle is his means of escape, with the box now on the floor, Ives climbs up to reach the ceiling and asks Shears to open the box, as the lid will not stay open on its own. Doing so, Shears watches as Ives clambers up and out of the cell – and, in miniature, runs across the floor only to be immediately captured in a matchbox by Shears. Shears returns the closed wooden box to its place on the bunk and sits back down at the desk. He opens the drawer and we see that there are many more matchboxes within, some still jerking feebly. He tosses the one containing the miniaturised Ives in with the rest, closes the drawer and, in Russian, calls for the next prisoner to be sent in.

References

  1. ↑ "Room 8 - James W. Griffiths". Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "2014 British Short Film | BAFTA Awards". Retrieved 8 February 2015.


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