Dir: Jacob Pander
Country: USA
Year: 2008
Duration: 81mins
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If J G Ballard wrote scripts for film noir movies or Hitchcock thrillers they may have looked something like this. Selfless is a vertiginously intense story rooted in contemporary anxieties; humiliating confrontation, the threat of violence, identity theft and exposure. A chance meeting in an airport lounge sees arrogant architect and designer Dylan Gray's clean and orderly life spin out of control, as everything he takes for granted is threatened and the fault lines beneath his ordered life begin to crack, revealing the void beneath his existence.
A primal nightmare from the sterility of our modern world, Jacob Pander's latest feature is rich in obsessions seen from his previous works: crisp design, airport lounges, claustrophobic designer apartment housing, tantalising glimpses of flesh, and the secret fears that perpetually haunt us. This multi-award winning feature, described by Todd Haynes as "Creepy!", offers a compellingly unpleasant view into a world rarely seen, a truly unnerving thriller for the twenty-first century.
Winner Best Feature, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay and Best Editing Bend Film Fest 2008