Archive of films Soft for Digging / Soft for Digging
USA
2001, 74 min
Section:
Forum of Independents
Year: 2002
One morning an old man wanders into the woods in search of his runaway cat. He instead finds a child with no parents and a murder with no corpse.
Synopsis
Elderly Virgil Manoven lives in a remote cabin where he encounters no one but the paper girl. One morning he ventures into the woods looking for his runaway cat and witnesses the murder of a little girl. Although he tries to forget it, violent fragments of the incident begin to crowd in his mind. But nobody believes him, not even the police: especially when no corpse is found. Gradually, even Virgil himself is not sure anymore what he actually saw, but he decides to find out. A bizarre horror with almost no dialogue, but with a sense for black humour.
About the director
JT Petty attended NYU’s Tisch School, made a number of short films and now works writing screenplays for video games. Soft for Digging is his first feature film, completed when he was 21 years old with a budget of 6,000 USD.
About the film
Black & white, 16 mm
Section: | Forum of Independents |
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Director: | JT Petty |
Screenplay: | JT Petty |
Dir. of Photography: | Patrick McGraw |
Music: | James Wolcott & Sophocles Papavasilopoulous |
Editor: | JT Petty, Dean Holland |
Producer: | Jeffrey Odell, JT Petty |
Production: | JT Petty |
Cast: | Sarah Ingerson, Andrew Hewitt, Kate Petty, Edmond Mercier, Wayne Knickel |