- Awards
- 15 wins
Ricardo Valdez
- Benny @ Twenty
- (as Ricky Valdes)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia26th Annual Telly Award Winner, 2005 The Empty Building Production Corp. "OVERALL PRODUCTION ACHIVEMENT" for FILM or VIDEO, non-broadcast Production.
- Crazy creditsThe Director extends his deepest gratitude to Steven Newman of Columbus Circle Cab Company, NYC, for allowing two weeks use of an empty building and tolerating the two years that followed. Thank you.
Featured review
Where everybody knows your demons.
For the past few years, there has been a monthly screening of short films from New York State "Emerging Filmmakers." I saw The Empty Building at the October 31, 2005 screening and it was not only one of my favorites from the series, but one of my favorite short films of all time.
It speaks of the horrors of our modern lives. It speaks of the things in each of our pasts that hold us back -- the subtle and the dramatic traumas that choke off the capacity to live our lives, demanding our attention to try and solve the unsolvable puzzle of how to unchain our present selves from the past. The answer is to change ourselves to accept what happened, but that's not such an easy path.
Thus, there is an empty building where we relive our fantasies and hash out that acceptance. Where we can go to embrace ourselves and our past selves and our successes and our failures. It's where those demons live and where we can look them straight in the eye and say goodbye.
It speaks of the horrors of our modern lives. It speaks of the things in each of our pasts that hold us back -- the subtle and the dramatic traumas that choke off the capacity to live our lives, demanding our attention to try and solve the unsolvable puzzle of how to unchain our present selves from the past. The answer is to change ourselves to accept what happened, but that's not such an easy path.
Thus, there is an empty building where we relive our fantasies and hash out that acceptance. Where we can go to embrace ourselves and our past selves and our successes and our failures. It's where those demons live and where we can look them straight in the eye and say goodbye.
helpful•121
- Jayce
- Dec 18, 2005
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Empty Building Short Stories
- Filming locations
- 243 W60 St., New York City, New York, USA(interiors)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $170,000 (estimated)
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content