Comedy,
14:00 minutes,
English,
BC,
2009
Synopsis
The Office Farm Series Part One: Electric Messiah is a slice of life from an office after hours.
Kevin, the temp, lets us into his secret occupation: an anthropologist studying the corporate office worker.
While Kevin is keenly informed of the species he is studying, he has lost sight of his own sanity. Live cadavers, vaudeville entertainers, and a book full of fingernail clippings are just the tip of the iceberg.
Join Kevin as he embarks on a hyper-lucid examination of corporate office malaise seen through the window of this own collapsing mental state.
Creative team
Writer/director/producer: Jon Pesochin & Zachary Rothman
Personal statement
"Electric Messiah
explores what can happen when employee fantasies literally take on a life of their own.
The film uses humour and archetypal office characters to explore the themes of personal space in a corporate place, and just what do we do when the boss', and our fellow employees, backs are turned.
What do we do on company time?
Ultimately, in Electric Messiah
, boredom and wild fits of imagination lead characters where corporate expectations cannot follow – a place where even the line between life and death has become vague and uncertain.
In November 2009
Electric Messiah co-director Zac Rothman was interviewed on CBC Radio about this film.
Listen to the interview.