The Siren's Song

2019, 15 minutes

This is an offbeat poetic dark comedy about a young man’s decent into mania, as he fails to resist the hypnotic allure of his snooze button, desperately convincing himself he has time for more sleep.

This is a film for the BBC as part of their ‘New Creatives’ scheme which gives emerging filmmakers and artists the opportunity to have their short film broadcast on BBC platforms. One of the stand out films commissioned by the BBC was The Siren’s Song by filmmaker Thomas Longstaff. This is an offbeat poetic dark comedy about a young man’s decent into mania, as he fails to resist the hypnotic allure of his snooze button, desperately convincing himself he has time for more sleep.

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