The Think Tank
2010 · 11m · USA
Directed by Peter Calloway
A short film featuring Matthew Rhys in multiple roles, exploring ideas around creativity and intellectual performance, created as a proof-of-concept for a feature-length development.
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Calloway takes the unusual step of casting a single excellent actor in every thinking role, which means every disagreement in the film is technically internal — that formal trick keeps the comedy grounded in psychology rather than just situation.
A 249K-view crowd-pleaser starring Matthew Rhys as every man in the room. It's the kind of one-joke conceit Vimeo audiences eat with a fork — clever, yes, and likely thinner than it pretends.
Casting Matthew Rhys in every role collapses ensemble logic into a one-man-show — Adaptation-adjacent. The conceit is clean; whether it earns the whole runtime is the question, and the summary leaves me uncertain.