The short film Ninety Seconds is a sci-fi thriller directed by Gerard Lough. It is set in the near future. The exact year is not given, but can be intuited to be 2017 or later. The film opens with a quote from George Orwell’s 1984: “The instrument could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.”
In this universe, there are private detectives, called “techs”, who have access to surveillance equipment similar to those used by intelligence agencies. People with enough money can hire these techs to invade other people’s privacy. The title Ninety Seconds refers to the average length of useful or incriminating evidence the lead character gets from hours of surveillance footage.
Mark (Andrew Norry) and his assistant Ralfi (Claire J. Blennerhassett) are techs hired by Mr. Philips (Michael Parle) to spy on the beautiful burlesque dancer Elly (Emma Eliza Regan). This get complicated when Mark develops a personal interest on Elly and begins to feel that other people are following him.
Here’s the complete short film (27 minutes long):
