The Job

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One Line

Ruth gets her catharsis in her abandoned city.
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Short Synopsis

During COVID lockdown in Melbourne, Ruth returns to a now abandoned office space to remember a traumatic experience and to reclaim the space for herself. She has her catharsis, but will she get busted?

  • Tatiana Wanda Doroshenko
    Director
  • Tatiana Wanda Doroshenko
    Writer
  • Tatiana Wanda Doroshenko
    Producer
  • Dana Miltins
    Key Cast
    "Ruth"
  • Justin Hosking
    Key Cast
    "Boss"
  • Wilhelmina Stracke
    Key Cast
    "Guard"
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, psychological thriller, surreal
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes 4 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 10, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    12,400 AUD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Shooting Format:
    RED
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.85:1, 4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Tatiana Wanda Doroshenko

Tatiana’s short films and screen works have seen audiences in Australia, Europe and America. Her recent 2021 film Amissa Anima is currently screening Internationally, winning Best Director in Italy, Tokyo, Munich and Best Short in Athens and Canberra amongst other awards and nominations.

In 2014 she completed a Masters at the School of Film & Television Victorian College of the Arts with a narrative thriller Earth that screened at the TCL Cinemas Hollywood with HollyShorts.

Other screening highlights include European Media Arts Festival (EMAF) 2007, Athens International Digital Film Festival 2022, Festival Court Métrange 2022, Transmediale Berlin 2002, Aspen and Palm Springs in 2007, and the Santiago Biennale 2003.

Tatiana has worked with not-for-profits and Aboriginal organisations, and holds a Bachelor of arts in Psychology and Visual Arts from the University of Melbourne.

Tatiana is a first generation Australian. Her parents immigrated from Poland and Ukraine after the second world war as displaced persons. Her mother and father were professional artists, classical and modern dancers, active in the pioneering years of Australian dance and the early days of aussie television.

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Director Statement

This short was made on a small budget near the end of COVID lockdown in Melbourne Australia, allowing us to capture an authenticity in the abandoned spaces and exteriors. The imagery and story are inspired and informed by the experience of living in the CBD during this time.
It explores trauma memories as carved into spaces, mental and physical, and ideas around reclaiming these spaces that fester with the remnants of nasty stories, some from many years ago.

I worked with dance artists to express the psychological through the body with an aim to integrate dance into the screen drama in an organic way. I engaged Japanese-Australian Butoh artist Yumi Umiumare as choreographer, working with the lead actor Dana Miltins, known for her physical theatre work with The Rabble.
We were funded by a Melbourne City Council Quick Response Arts Grant and by many kind crowd funders and in-kind-ers, with Auspicious Arts managing finances. Post production sound involved sound engineering students at RMIT City campus.