Aaron Joachim

The Incurable Illness of Anxiety and Depression

A 2023 Perth Anthology Feature Film. Four directors come together to create and dissect an exploration of mental health through four short, but horrifying stories and genres; Sci-Fi, Gothic, Fantasy, and Psychological.

Sorrowing Man

Set in Perth, Western Australia, Mark reasons with a detective after he is brought in for questioning regarding the brutal murder of his estranged father in a dark and empty parking lot.

Spreadsheets

An office drone represses his feelings towards a co-worker by thinking of the one thing no one could be attracted to - spreadsheets. This turns out to have an entirely different effect.

Stranger

Katie is an 11-year-old girl, being held for questioning by police in an interrogation room. She is silent and scared. But after being pushed, the details of her story are slowly revealed. Perceptions of reality are tested, as Katie details her encounter with a Stranger, at a playground, at night.

Three Story Tour

Othello, a melancholic family man, seeks out a seraphic myth known as The Guide for enlightenment and is unknowingly taken on an esoteric tour of confrontation.

Medicine for the Apocalypse

In a subterranean bunker, a man - rescued from the wasteland above - must lie about being a doctor in order to be deemed worthy of saving.