“What we’re doing means something.” Joint Venture has revealed the official trailer for an indie surrealist comedy called Straight Circle, created by filmmaker Oscar Hudson. This premiered one year ago at the 2025 Venice Film Festival where it also won the Venice Critics’ Week Grand Prize. I’m so glad this is finally getting released in theaters this fall! I’ve never seen anything like this! Extremely creative and clever, and amusing in its fascinating narrative involving these two “enemies”. Even Bong Joon-ho is a big fan of it! He is quoted in this trailer! A disorienting nightmare gradually takes hold of two enemy soldiers stationed on a lonely desert border in this mind-bending picture. Hudson has crafted a surreal and absurdist satire about the arbitrary nature of borders and the shared humanity underlying nationalistic division. This is a film of sensory excess, where unhinged violence bleeds right into bizarre horror. Starring real-life brothers Elliott & Luke Tittensor in this wildly imaginative satire about what happens when borders drawn in the sand start to blur. Also featuring Neil Maskell as the goat herder. I’m a big fan of this! Still thinking about it a year later. Highly recommend it for anyone brave enough to dive into brand new, one-of-a-kind cinema.
Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Oscar Hudson’s film Straight Circle, direct from YouTube:
2 enemy soldiers are stationed together on a remote border post in the middle of a vast, featureless desert. Their positions exist as a ceremonial symbol of an uneasy truce between two nations. The young men set about their pointless assignment battling the sweltering heat, mind-numbing boredom, and the hostility of each other’s company, until an ambling goat herder crosses the border & sends their monotonous existence off its axis. As they grapple with their identities, loyalties, and absurdity of their situation, their isolation slowly gives way to an outlandish nightmare that blurs the line between friend and foe. Straight Circle is written and directed by visionary up-and-coming British filmmaker Oscar Hudson, making his feature directorial debut after many commercials & other short films previously. Produced by Rik Green, Thomas Benski, Kevin Rowe, Riaz Rizvi Executive Producers: Eva Yates, Anthony Kingsley, Sophie Kingsley, Charlie Alderman, Oscar Hudson, Dav Karbassioun. This initially premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival in the Critics’ Week sidebar last year, and it also played at London and AFI Fest. Joint Venture releases Hudson’s Straight Circle film in select US theaters starting in fall 2026 coming up soon. Anyone want to watch this?
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