Twofold
2023 · 19m · UK
Directed by Ella Greenwood
Tones: melancholic, tense
Beneath the noise of a New Year's Eve party, Allie has a chance encounter with Erin — a woman from her past — and a charged, real-time confrontation unearths buried feelings and long-unresolved wounds. Shot in a single continuous take.
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The scouts
The single-take gimmick could've been insufferable, but Greenwood uses it to *refuse* the easy cut away—we're trapped in real time with two people excavating a decade in eighteen minutes, and that formal constraint becomes genuinely subversive.
A measured interrogation of form: the continuous take situates itself squarely in the Birdman lineage while honoring a quieter, more intimate tradition of two-hander chamber drama—the technical discipline here serves the emotional archaeology, not the reverse.
The decision to bury the party noise above and anchor everything in the whispered, unbroken exchange between Allie and Erin transforms what could be a gimmick into a profound act of attention—one formal choice that makes the whole apparatus sing.
Reviews
A scintillating film of lost love, 'Twofold' moves at breakneck speed, a rush of love and anger that are only real in films.
Mesmerising and haunting — Greenwood captures wild emotive passion through her lens with enthusiasm tempered with restraint.
Festivals
- British Short Film Awards 2024
- Kino London Short Film Festival 2024, Best Director
- Amazon MGM Studios LGBTQ+ Short Film Competition 2024
- LGBT+ Film Festival Poland 2024, Best Short Film