The Director Speaks

The story was born out of frustration at having been unable to create a short movie of my own, despite living and working in the Los Angeles filmmaking community. Why should it be so hard? I used to make films with some regularity while I was growing up in England, but now life, career and city filming permits conspired against me. My modest attempt to shoot a ten-minute Outer Limits fell flat on its face.

During post-production, while batting around ideas with my composer, Laurent Watteau, I attempted to clarify that intent with the following explanation as to what The Glitch was all about, proving that sometimes these things do not become apparent until they are ready to reveal themselves.
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Harry Owen is a little man controlled by a huge bureaucracy that he is completely unaware of -- a giant conspiracy of ‘Harry’s who simply use him as their pawn, moving him around in the digital short movie world where he resides, so they can all exist in this digital dimension. It's survival of the pixels! As Harry becomes aware of the pixels in rebellion, it becomes an infernal dance, a battle for survival, and Harry Owen will never be the same again.