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A woman moves in.
Sophie has just moved into a newly renovated apartment. But as she pokes around, she stumbles upon an old television stashed away in a locked closet. She sets it up, but as the TV flickers on, it's broadcasting her own image, from an angle that seems impossible to capture her from, much less block, shut off or destroy.
She becomes acquainted with her neighbor Kyle, and both of them are drawn into the mystery of the strange, old television. They begin to suspect that the figure onscreen isn't just a reflection of the "real" Sophie, but something else entirely.
Directed and written by Gordon Phillips, this smart, darkly off-beat horror short explores the disquieting breach of the uncanny and unwanted into our domestic spaces, with a more modern, eerie tech slant to the "intruder." Whether it's a haunted house or a home invasion, horror thrillers have long capitalized on the paranoia of our supposed safe spaces becoming traps of danger, but this short takes advantage of technology's diffuse, disembodied omnipresence to generate an itchy, uneasy disquiet over being surveilled and being able to do nothing about it.
Much of the film's fascination is generated by its tonal balance, oscillating between an eerie, free-floating oddness and modern, quirky observation, tracking as Sophie settles in and discovers the television and its odd powers. Its rhythms, sound and music are helter-skelter, keeping viewers off-balance but engaged. When Kyle enters the scene, he brings a friendly, inquisitive energy to the proceedings and gives actor Mika Wysocki, who plays Sophie, someone to team up with, as well as tease, banter and feel safer with. When the unseen camera reveals itself to have more powers than mere observation, they work together to dispatch the threat. Actor Steven Oktaras has a fun rapport with Wysocki, the laidback yin to Sophie's more paranoid, aggressive yang, and it's not a surprise to see that chemistry progress past mere neighbors later, seemingly leaving Sophie on a happy note, settled into her new home.
There's a playful aspect to THE ME IN THE TV, but its bright visual naturalism and off-kilter style belie the enigmatic nature of its story. Not your typical horror film, the short doesn't give away its secrets entirely, though its ending leaves a few clues that gesture to a larger mechanism at work beyond the mysterious unseen camera. It hints that something is coming from a reality outside our own, with its own agenda and unseen purposes -- not unlike the all-seeing, omnipresent eyes in our own world.
THE ME IN THE TV. Courtesy of Gordon Phillips at https://themeinthetv.com.
Sophie has just moved into a newly renovated apartment. But as she pokes around, she stumbles upon an old television stashed away in a locked closet. She sets it up, but as the TV flickers on, it's broadcasting her own image, from an angle that seems impossible to capture her from, much less block, shut off or destroy.
She becomes acquainted with her neighbor Kyle, and both of them are drawn into the mystery of the strange, old television. They begin to suspect that the figure onscreen isn't just a reflection of the "real" Sophie, but something else entirely.
Directed and written by Gordon Phillips, this smart, darkly off-beat horror short explores the disquieting breach of the uncanny and unwanted into our domestic spaces, with a more modern, eerie tech slant to the "intruder." Whether it's a haunted house or a home invasion, horror thrillers have long capitalized on the paranoia of our supposed safe spaces becoming traps of danger, but this short takes advantage of technology's diffuse, disembodied omnipresence to generate an itchy, uneasy disquiet over being surveilled and being able to do nothing about it.
Much of the film's fascination is generated by its tonal balance, oscillating between an eerie, free-floating oddness and modern, quirky observation, tracking as Sophie settles in and discovers the television and its odd powers. Its rhythms, sound and music are helter-skelter, keeping viewers off-balance but engaged. When Kyle enters the scene, he brings a friendly, inquisitive energy to the proceedings and gives actor Mika Wysocki, who plays Sophie, someone to team up with, as well as tease, banter and feel safer with. When the unseen camera reveals itself to have more powers than mere observation, they work together to dispatch the threat. Actor Steven Oktaras has a fun rapport with Wysocki, the laidback yin to Sophie's more paranoid, aggressive yang, and it's not a surprise to see that chemistry progress past mere neighbors later, seemingly leaving Sophie on a happy note, settled into her new home.
There's a playful aspect to THE ME IN THE TV, but its bright visual naturalism and off-kilter style belie the enigmatic nature of its story. Not your typical horror film, the short doesn't give away its secrets entirely, though its ending leaves a few clues that gesture to a larger mechanism at work beyond the mysterious unseen camera. It hints that something is coming from a reality outside our own, with its own agenda and unseen purposes -- not unlike the all-seeing, omnipresent eyes in our own world.
THE ME IN THE TV. Courtesy of Gordon Phillips at https://themeinthetv.com.
