Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
2016 · 24m · Australia
Directed by Sunday Emerson Gullifer
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, dark, theatrical
An actress endures a tyrannical director's abuse while staging Macbeth and fights to reclaim control of her body.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The Shakespeare-as-trauma-mirror angle is competent but expected—we've seen the Bard weaponized against power dynamics before. Where's the genuine provocation that makes me reconsider what this formal setup could actually do?
Gullifer's layering of Macbeth's language and staging onto contemporary bodily violation creates a precise dialogue between literary tradition and lived abuse—the theatrical frame becomes both weapon and archive, executed with the formal rigor that justifies experimental structure.
The decision to let Shakespeare's text remain audible underneath the director's abuse—never drowning it out, never clarifying it—transforms a potentially didactic premise into something genuinely unsettling, and it's that restraint in the sound design that sells the whole thing.
Reviews
Sunday Emerson Gullifer's dazzling short film tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow examines the physical and psychological damage inflicted on people (particularly women) in the art world as a consequence of the male "genius" myth. Its execution is uniquely poetic.