EVERY ROOM IS EMPTY

2009 | 12 minutes, HD & Pixelvision | IMDb

A precocious girl with a camera offers a shy writer an excuse to leave a party in his own house and they retreat to his writing sanctuary: the basement. The two get locked down there, and in order to pass the time while they wait for rescue, she convinces him to write her a story. Stuck for inspiration, he begins to tell the story of a shy writer who gets locked in the basement during a party. She suggests he shouldn’t be alone, so he adds a precocious girl with a camera, and soon the story begins to fold in on itself, as the two fictional characters, bored, entertain themselves with the story of a man with a typewriter and a girl with a camera locked together in the basement, trying to pass the time.

CAST

The Man / The Writer / John: Jeff Mills
The Woman / Girl With The Camera / Sarah: Sabra Choi
Partygoers: Andy Blubaugh, Nena Botto, Dallas Bryant, Clint Ganczak, Lynn Harritt, Chris Higgins, James Krudop, Briana Ledford, Shauna Marx, Erin Rackelman

CREW

Writer, Director, Editor: Travis Ezell
Production Manager: Andy Blubaugh
Directors of Photography: Jon Beanlands, Travis Ezell
Gaffer: Sam Naiman
A.C.: Clint Ganczak
Recordist, Music Supervisor: Cassie Cohn
P.A.: Kelly Kendziorski
Pixelvision Camera: Melissa Tvetan
Lettuce Support: Amy O’Brien
Critical Support: W.G.
Special Thanks: Rex Carter

SOUNDTRACK

“The Deadliest Scorpion”
By Ah Holly Fam’ly
Courtesy of Lucky Madison
©2009 Ah Holly Fam’ly

“Aquarium of the Deep Sea”
By Brain Bullet
Courtesy of Magnanimous Records
©2009 Brain Bullet

“E~” and “Vexed”
Written by Jette Kelly
Performed by Jette-Ives
Courtesy of Ova Records
©2006 Ova Records

“Trascore”
By Vic Vanberg
©2009 Vic Vanberg

Official Selection, 36th Annual Northwest Film & Video Festival (2009)