Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

High Maintenance


Award-winning short film directed by Phillip Van Written by Simon Biggs Produced by Cordula Kablitz-Post DP Felix Novo D'Oliveira Editor Dorothee Brockelman Cast: Jane: Nicolette Krebitz Paul: Wanja Mues Summary: Jane is unhappy with her dull husband and monotonous marriage. Thankfully, in the near-future satisfaction is guaranteed and upgrades are always available. *Winner of over a dozen awards, including a Student Academy Award, Berlin International Film Festival Talent Campus Award, HBO US Comedy Arts Best Short Award, Delta's Fly-In Movies Competition at Sundance, Florida & Seattle Int'l FF Audience Awards, and a BAFTA/LA award. An Avanti Media Production.

Explore...

What is an Inciting incident?

Screenwriting software from StudioBinder

Anatomy of a Screenplay

10 Moments of Subjectivity on Film

Why all short films look the same

Stutterer (2015)

10 Best Uses of Color of All Time

Night Fishing 파란만장 Paranmanjang

Film editing: Everything you need to know

Understanding the Formatting of a Screenplay (and Why It All Matters)

New...

Bronze DofE Enrolment Letter 2026-2027

Admissions and Application Forms :: Main School and Sixth Form

Enrichment Opportunities (Clubs)

ParentPay

E-Safety

Local Governing Body Information

School Policies

Teacher of film studies and/or English

Discover...

ZEN Vimeo Phillip Van Videos GCE Screenplay Short Film Film Studies Wellbeing Key Stage 4 After School Clubs Productions BBC Iplayer GCSE Policy Duke Of Edinburgh Internet Safety Plot Coursework Do The Right Thing Governance Narrative Documentary Aesthetics

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...