Pub House

'Pub House is a very personal story for me. It's heavily inspired by my own childhood following my parent's separation, and the position of vulnerability my mother and I were left in afterward. This is close-to-home for me, not just emotionally, but also physically - the Pub location in this short is still my actual family home to this day, and much of the tense depictions seen in this film, such as music vibrating through the walls and drunk patrons fighting in the street is second nature for us now.

This setting was always a concept I wanted to build a narrative around, but it wasn't until I later became interested in making something that explores the flaws of the landlord dynamic that I realised these two subjects would fit well with each other.

Much of my inspiration for this story was my wanting to shed light on the dangers of unchecked 'landlordism', and display how the power dynamic created by renting property can pose a risk to vulnerable individuals. When I was a child, our landlord thankfully never abused the position of power he had over my mother or our family. 'Pub House' explores what could have happened if he had.'