hubcaps and bathtubs

year: 2009
running time: 4 minutes
format: hdv
country: england
genre: fiction

cast: rebecca demmen / suraj rattu / yelena garrett / robert lowe / jeffrey monney / charlie blanks

writer/director/editor:
claire leona apps

producer/production designer:
alexandra marrache

cinematographer:
maeve o’connell

sound: libero colimberti

music: hijak oscar

film funded by the commonwealth vision awards (a ‘royal commonwealth society’ and ‘commonwealth broadcasting association’ collaboration)

assigned theme: global challenges and the new generation.

old habits die hard. we are being warned about controlling our petrol and electricity consumption but many are finding it hard to adjust. this film is set in a fictional future where the oil has run out. and cars and planes are only memories of the elder generation. six teenagers discover an abandoned car. they study the foreign object and, using their deductive reasoning, try to work out its function and purpose, exploring and competing to make sense of it.