Emma Stone in a 30-minute silent fever dream where a goat watches you sin.
A black and white silent short film, set on the Greek Cycladic island of Tenos. A woman in black is mourning inside a simple house. Reality blends with dreamy imagination, and tradition with insidious desires.
Direction
Lanthimos weaponizes silence; every frame is a threat.
Cinematography
Black-and-white grain that feels like ancestral memory.
Sound
The goat. That goat. You'll never forget that goat.
Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on Tenos during pandemic lockdown with a skeleton crew; Lanthimos apparently just... wanted to make something unhinged with Emma Stone and a goat.
The Cycladic setting evokes ancient Greek mystery cults—Eleusinian rites where death and rebirth blur, which the film treats with deadpan perversity.
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