Living Things

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Tom Cozens | Switzerland | 00:12:12 | 2020
English

When a pandemic leaves a traumatised man alone, he chooses to face deadly storms and the demons of his past in order to find other life.

Starring actor David Gyasi (Interstellar, TROY: Fall of a City), and filmed in the peaks of the Swiss and Italian Alps, ‘Living Things’ explores a not so far off world in which a pandemic, similar to Coronavirus, released during a climate disaster, kills off the majority of life. Elijah is (perhaps the only one) immune to this virus and finds himself alone as a child. The only hope he has of seeing other people is the mysterious ‘beacon’; but after getting lost in a storm trying to reach it, he resigns himself to a life alone.

Elijah tries to create meaning for himself by attempting to grow plants. When these attempts inevitably fail he increasingly sees his life giving immunity as a cruel joke. As his mind deteriorates he starts to experience psychosis. In his darkest moment, wondering whether to take his own life, he experiences a psychotic episode in which he hears himself as a child, reminding him of the hope for the beacon he once had. Leaving his life of safety behind, spurred on by the quiet hope of his childhood, Elijah once again faces the storm, discovering that his miraculous immunity was perhaps a reflection of the divine within himself.

Cast
David Gyasi
Nathaniel Gyasi

Writer
Tom Cozens

Co-producer
Tom Cozens
Rachel Brier