The English Lesson

Not only will computers rob us of our dignity, but also our very core.

20 mins
Set ten years in the future, Virgil, an English Language Steward (not teacher) works in a school which achieves 100 hundred per cent success rate. Dressed in a red hooded outfit which suggests his low rank, Virgil has been employed to assist the efficient auto-prof: a computerised English instructor. The machine unleashes utilitarian English classes pitched way below its students' levels in order to guarantee passes and maintain the school's reputation. Virgil becomes taken by a student, Marie, who somehow manages to stir him from the drudgery of his apathetic classroom role. He fails one of the student's test in his class and is ordered by his superiors to amend the score if he wishes to keep his position, taking into account the dwindling jobs market. He is bullied, harassed and intimated into complying with a system that is decayed, corrupted and abusive towards its employees.

Alina Morar

Costume Designer

Mine Mahmutoglu

Assistant Set Designer

Seamus Cogan

Colorist

Julian Bivol

First Assistant Camera

Mine Mahmutoglu

Runner Art Department

Paul Herbert

Director

Riika Lievonen

Makeup Artist

Shahnaze Faneker

Assistant Set Designer

Elias Katsoufis

First Assistant Director

Anne Bouromane

Set Designer

Peter Panoa

Director of Photography

Nick Ng

Gaffer

Aravind Sundar

Sound Designer

Su Hou

Associate Producer

Paul Herbert

Producer

Rob Maloney

Sound Recordist

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