RED is a short, dark story about Sascha, a young man whose life was turned upside down when his dear wife, Evie is killed in a car accident. He doesn’t deal with the incident well, and spirals down into depression and failed suicides. Stuck in the same horrific day, with nothing but bad memories to keep him company. He decides to exact revenge on the other accident victim of that fateful day. But the ghosts that pursue Sascha are always a step ahead of him.
Some people who know me personally will know that at the beginning of 2012, I set out to make a short film. You'll know also that this was when I just started creating my course Final piece, 'Mother'. What happened next was that my fully fleshed out, fully realised concept, cast, written, scripted, budgeted short film got put on hold half way through the filming procedure. Not cool. Everyone that was involved in that project put in a lot of work, and it was a real shame to see it all pour away because of time constraints.
So rather then leave the work to go unused, I decided to try and make the best narrative I could out of the footage we had. Isaac Ssbandeke, (the lead actor) narrated some text I had created to help tie the visuals we had together. What results is not what the film had originally set out to be, but it still very much sets the tone for the story and feel.
I'm proud of all the work that went into this, from everyone involved. I'd love to return to the story again in the future, as a project 6 years on the making (or however long it takes to get made).
So until then, just enjoy these extra screengrabs.
Isaac Ssbandeke as Sascha
Original OST by Jon Cooper
