Max Francis Hayes

The Sweetness of Garlic

Isa’s having a bad shift. The restaurant is packed, there’s new graffiti in the bathroom, and her best friend Earn has just told her he’s picking up shifts at the rival rooftop bar next door. Customers start getting weird, the chefs couldn’t care less, and the strange messages in the bathroom seem to be telling Isa she needs to get out of there. When her manager asks her to get some biodynamic wine from the cupboard upstairs, Isa realises the only way out is up.

The House in the Middle of the Sea

After the Germans flooded large parts of The Netherlands towards the end of WWII, the Brouwer family find themselves trapped in their attic surrounded by water. With their rations dwindling, tensions arise within the household.

Sidetracking

Two young lovers are hitchhiking together towards their new home, when they suddenly break up and go separate ways. But as they talk to the different strangers that pick them up, they both start reconsidering their life decisions.

Greenfingers

Following fateful scientific reports, protestors pose the argument for a better future against the vested interest of industry. Small to large, individual to collective, where do I fit into this?

In Her Own Time

Jane and Mia have a sisterly friendship, and like sisters, they argue frequently. Jane is trying to get into art school, but is conflicted because she is afraid that she has to leave Mia behind if she accepts her place at Art school.

Organ Stops - Saving The King of Instruments

Beautifully made and historically important pipe organs are being scrapped in their hundreds. Once at the centre of British culture pipe organs are now neglected and unloved.

Fatima's Job

Emerging artists seek to stay afloat in their industry whilst the Covid pandemic induces career threatening lockdowns.

Cerebrum

A student walks into a space and it unexpectedly becomes special to them, inside it they dress up a mannequin bombastically and lock themselves away in it. When their creation is brought outside of the space unexpectedly they struggle to find it until it is found discarded by bins. But what is the mannequin and what does it mean to The Creator?