Pencillia
2009 – Short Film – 19 min
Directed by: James Rewucki – Produced by: Absurd Machine Films
“Pencillia is more provocative than a good proportion of feature length films”
- Alessa Thomas - State News
“Brilliant.” - Calgary International Film Festival
A man goes on a Kafka-esque journey through the world of bureaucracy and comes out the other side with a new pencil and a new view of his strange world.
Winston Burroughs is just a regular schmuck who’s trying to do his job and stay out of trouble, he breaks his pencil and finds he must requisition a new one, but this is not as easy a task as one might think. On his way to the acquisition desk he is detoured, derided, drugged, physically abused and psychologically tormented – all for the need of a new pencil.
Pencillia is a dark, suspenseful short film which makes a social comment on the drudgery of the modern workplace and the inefficiency of an overly bureaucratic system.
OFFICIAL SELECTION OF:
2006 East Lansing Film Festival
2006 George Lindsey UNA Film Festival
2006 NYC Home Film Festival
2005 DNA Film Festival
2005 Evil City Film Festival
2005 Calgary International Film Festival