Shot with a Minolta XL-42 super 8 camera, using Kodak Tri-X reversal film stock (200/160 ASA), at 18 fps.
The title is inspired by a term used by the corporate elite to describe successful businesses whose fortunes have waned, yet are kept alive and propped-up by the state.
Runner-Up at the 2005 Silent Speed Film Festival in Seattle, USA.
Won the Special flEXiff Award at The First and the Last Experimental International Film Festival, in Sidney, Australia, in September 2005, with four other films by the Volatile Works collective, of which the director is a member. The other films are: House, Kuleshov's Cabinet, NatoNosferatu, and Resettlement [floating home].
Won Best Director Award (Shorts category) at the International Festival of Horror, Cincinnati, October 2005.