Without (2009)

Two men meet in the middle of a bleak, infinitely flat desert. Clinging to the last shreds of their existence, neither character can remember how they got there, or the last time they saw anything-a person, a town, any sign of life. The film's layers of metaphor and meaning unfold as the characters warily assess each other. They possess conflicting and complementary characteristics, revealing the film's underlying paradox: they both rely upon and threaten each other's survival. The tense, symbolic narrative is further complicated with the revelation that one character is carrying a piece of the other's soul, though neither person knows it. This visually stunning short examines the intricacies and contradictions of the human condition