Progressive Amputation is introduced as a new form of punishment for particularly heinous crimes, in this pitch-black social satire by Matt Richards.
Direction
Richards makes 13 minutes feel like a lifetime of dread.
Acting
Kevin Dee's descent from defiance to hollow shell is devastating.
Director
Matthew Richards
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film directly engages with Australia's own history of punitive spectacle and mandatory sentencing debates.
Richards has noted the title's echo of 'the disappeared' in political violence—Willie isn't killed, he's unmade while living.
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