Bad Day was my last fiction effort during film school. It was written as a one hour movie, but time constraints made me rush and drop things during shooting and so I ended with a slower-paced, fifty minute picture. Almost year later I re-edited the whole thing as a slim thirty minute short, and that was that, a Bad Day I could live with. Here it is now, for your viewing pleasure.

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During the last year of film school we had an optional project — to write a short film to be shot in a single day, according to a theme. The theme was: what if there was some sort of pill that made you smart? I took the opportunity to do an explicitly sci-fi short, Weltschmerz. I stole a lot from the Voigt-Kampf scenes in Blade Runner, with some Peter F. Hamilton thrown in. It was fun. It was shame we lost the lead actress a couple of days before the shoot (not many times I heard someone so devastated on the phone, it was not her fault) and, unable to postpone, had to make do with Isa, which we had cast in a minor role primarily for her looks. We had almost no time to reharse, but Isa took the role quite bravely and I'm so thankful... We may have taken twenty hours (we shot the whole thing in a single apartment, so we had to change decorations a few times), but we did shoot it in a single day.

Here's the whole 13-minute short. Enjoy. ···