Python
A young girl lives in an all-white room, and all she does every day is eat, sleep, and wait for a knock on the door. Until one day, an unexpected visitor enters her place, and the knock she was waiting for never comes back.
15-minute Short Film Script
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Characters:
Young Woman: in her early twenties, a character in Writer's book.
Man: a middle-aged man, a censor.
Writer: a woman who lives next door to the young woman, is also the young woman's creator.
The script for the short film Python was preceded by an intense story I had written in 2020, and I did an experiment before going ahead with the script. I invited three friends to act as my cultural censors and asked them to treat my work with strict censorship standards; anything they thought was inappropriate would be removed. By the end of the discussion, the whole plot of the story had changed completely.
The script was produced into an independent short film, Python, from September 2020 to 2021.
The story is inspired by the article 'Anaconda in a Chandelier', 2002, by Perry Link.
“…censorial authority in recent times has resembled not so much a man-eating tiger or fire-snorting dragon as a giant anaconda coiled in an overhead chandelier. Normally the great snake doesn’t move. It doesn’t have to. It feels no need to be clear about its prohibitions. Its constant silent message is ‘You yourself decide,’ after which, more often than not, everyone in its shadow makes his or her large and small adjustments—all quite ‘naturally.’ “
'Anaconda in a Chandelier', 2002, Perry Link.
Related Documentary Project: Python Meeting
Adapted as a feature film script from the meeting minutes of a script review conducted during the pre-production of the short film Python.
