False performative workplace calls – especially ”How was your weekend?” – Get the horror movie treatment in Cam BanfieldDebut shortly called it. “How was your weekend?”, Which premiered at SXSW Film & TV festival and next leads to San Francisco Film Festival Next week is a fear of office space where there is no Innie or Outie. There is only yourself, and if you didn’t have a good weekend, the rest of us may not have a good week.
Nominated for the SXSW Grand Jury Short Film Award, “How was your weekend?” Stars James Morosini (”That is what is inside“) Like Steven, a cabinet drone at an anonymous, windowless corporate hob somewhere in a depressing pocket outside Los Angeles. He arrives at the office on a Monday morning after a bad weekend with relationship problems at home, and his colleagues all buzz with the question,” How was your weekend? “And when he dares to say that he was not big, the office population comes into surreal madness.
“I can’t think of the microaggictions in the horror in everyday life in almost everything I try to do and try to rewrite,” Banfield said in an IndieWire interview after SXSW over Zoom. .
Banfield originally comes from Texas and has a handful of little actors to his name, but “How was your weekend?” is his first film as a writer/director. “I was working on this job that I started to see things I couldn’t think of,” Banfield said about the experiences that led to him making the movie. Since the SXSW premiere, he has signed with the talent and production management company anonymous content and works with the function script version of The Short.
“What if a guy weekend wasn’t good?” How about yours? “” It was actually damn terrible, “and it opens Hellscape under everyone’s office,” he said about his ultimate pitch for the film. “You open the short one with this guy in his car, but we are like, oh wait, he is more like a prisoner, not a commuter. This is a prisoner reporting for his daily punishment. You have to turn on the working situation, man.
He described SXSW Short as an “obvious proof of concept” – because many shorts are about to become features – which means “how was your weekend?” Yet will not be available to stream, and instead you will tour movies Festivals.
“Everyone experiences these things in the modern society we all are in, the lack of individuality, the hive, people at their lunch break the brain line on their phones, everyone looks at the same collective thing,” Banfield said. “It must be explored as a movie. I’m deep in it on the script right now to make it a function. It will be a true, contained modern horror thriller that sat around the central question in the short film.” .
Banfield sees the connections to the popular TV satire in the workplace “Severrance”, even if he promises his function “How was your weekend?” Will deal with the office culture from a unique angle that leans more to traditional horror. “Unfortunately, in our story you can’t have your memories interrupted, and there is no Innie and Outie,” he said. “You have to deal with both sides. It really is where everything lives: the personal, the bleeding in the work. Unlike” departure value “it is inevitable. Especially when someone opens and is honest.”
Production’s life-simitating art is still a haunt for Banfield, who filmed the short summer of 2024 for two days in a “sad office” outside salmon with non-professional actors.
“We started to hear stories in this weekend cohort… (one) Had just the leave of absence for depression from their own job, and they were just trying this out. Another woman had be a know for 30 years, and she litely wilds suddenly loves acting, “Banfield Said, Adding,” It’s a Sad Office, Man, and It was Almost Haunting Going in There and Seeing The Things That The Forms Tenants (Left)… There Were The Family’s Wallet Photos Right in Archives.
“How was your weekend?” Playing Sffilm Thursday 24 April.
