FILM REVIEW: His Hands

His Hands is a very short ( 12 minutes) silent psychological thriller , which will leave you with all the questions for you to answer following its many clues.

Written and directed by Arron Blake and Darius Shu it  stars Philip Brisebois as an older man, visited by a young handsome stranger (Blake ) .

It presents us with images of torture, attraction, loneliness, ageism, androgyny and wherever else your fertile mind can take you and bares watching a second time, which I certainly was drawn to do.

The camera is often in close – on the men’s eyes, or more crucially on their hands , and there is tension from the word go as the old man waits for his visitor.

Earrings are given by the old man and worn by the younger together with lipstick, but there’s no getting away from the piercing evil look in the visitor’s eyes.

A strange episode of bondage follows and I am guessing – and your guess is as good as mine – a murder.

But there’ s no certainty and that’s what makes it a thriller.

It could be developed further but the discussion among audiences will last longer than the film itself.

His Hands, by Little Deer Films , was nominated at last year’s prestigious Tribeca Film Festival. It’s available on Amazon Prime.