Eight minutes. One apocalypse. Two strangers. The shortest film that'll wreck you completely.
As a solar flare is heading towards Earth, a family man named Arthur befriends a homeless man and faces a pivotal choice.
Direction
Three directors, one seamless vision of intimate doom
Acting
Blicker and Biniaris build a lifetime in minutes
Writing
Economy that trusts silence over exposition
Director
Evan Gold
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The directors shot this as USC graduate students, using practical lighting to simulate solar flare effects on a near-zero budget.
The 'Smithies' keyword refers to a brief background detail—Arthur's workplace—hinting at the routine existence he abandons. The film asks whether catastrophe reveals or creates who we really are.
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