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Apeth

Country: UK, Language: English, 8 mins

  • Director: James Martin Charlton
  • Writer: James Martin Charlton
  • Producer: James Martin Charlton; Andy Kelleher

CGiii Comment

So bad...we only made it to the 44 second mark!


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The(ir) Blurb...

Sven is looking at a coffee table book of El Greco reproductions. He is fascinated by one picture in particular - Allegory, Boy Lighting Candle in Company of Ape and Fool (Fábula). He lays the book aside and drifts into a reverie. Later, he is on his computer, and receives an email from a sexual partner, asking if their meet tonight is still on. Sven replies that it is. He touches himself sensually. A car drives past London zoo. In a block of flats on a run-down council estate, a woman scrubs her dirty washing. The mobile phone beside her receives a text. Before she can check it, her son Pierrot barges into the kitchen and violently wrests it from her hands. He checks the text - it's from Sven, inviting him round tonight. Pierrot is cocky and over-excited at this, and rubs his glee in the face of his long-suffering mother. At London zoo, an Ape leaves via the main exit and runs into the street. Later that evening at Sven's, Pierrot and his host smoke dope and enjoy the sexual tension...

Cast & Characters

Stephen Billington as Sven
Luke Harrisas Pierrot (as Pietro Herrera)
Tom Hayes as Ape
Caroline Burns Cooke as Pierrot's Mother