Only the Beautiful

Only the Beautiful - Short Film 2017

Loosely based on John B Calhoun’s mice utopia experiment known as ‘the beautiful ones’, 'Only the Beautiful’ is a short science futurism fiction film about agency. It follows Harold, the child of a rigid, isolating, humanity preserving metropolitan eco-system, who has to decide whether to take actions, to move freely and imperil the system that sustains humanity, or to sit still and condemn humanity to cyclical stagnation. When the system's original architect kills herself, will Harold take over her role preserving its functions or topple the system that has oppressed him his whole life?