ON FALLING
Short Film
January 2024
Other People’s Films
A meditative and oneiric film, On Falling is a re-exploration of the Myth of Sisyphus that follows Z perpetually falling through a dark void. As we follow their fall, we float, drift in and out of dreamlike thoughts, meeting a child that incubates dreams, the moon – their lover – and a witness to death and rebirth.
The film resonates with Antonia Luxem’s previous works in its exploration of dream worlds and dream structures, the re-enactment of deep existential anxiety and the processing of violence, as they seek to re-imagine ways of being queer in the world. On Falling is a quest for mastering the loss of control, a search for lucidity and for letting go in order to survive violence and pain.
Other People’s Films is a film production company founded by Antonia Luxem and May Ziadé.
Starring
Z
Adam Hoya
Moon
Aaron Hannah Shakespeare
Child
Jo Chao
Friend & Voice
Antonia Luxem
Adam Hoya
Moon
Aaron Hannah Shakespeare
Child
Jo Chao
Friend & Voice
Antonia Luxem
Credits
Writer & Director Antonia Luxem
Producer
May Ziadé
Director of Photography
Jackie Teboul
Costume Design
Simon Schmidt
Hair & Makeup
Tina Khatri
Producer
May Ziadé
Director of Photography
Jackie Teboul
Costume Design
Simon Schmidt
Hair & Makeup
Tina Khatri
Production Design
Claudia Fragoso
Production Design Associate
Ishbel Mull
Production Design Assistant
Anna Wallach
Propmaker & Standby Props
Hannah Ursula Schmidt
Claudia Fragoso
Production Design Associate
Ishbel Mull
Production Design Assistant
Anna Wallach
Propmaker & Standby Props
Hannah Ursula Schmidt
Edit
Antonia Luxem
Music
Tom Foskett-Barnes & Josephine Stephenson
Sound Design
Felix Waverley-Hudson
Funded by Arts Council England & Other People's Films
Antonia Luxem
Music
Tom Foskett-Barnes & Josephine Stephenson
Sound Design
Felix Waverley-Hudson
Funded by Arts Council England & Other People's Films
Film Stills
Images courtesy Other People’s Films
and Marika Kochiashvili
and Marika Kochiashvili