THE LIABILITY

Influenced by the videogame Grand Theft Auto, twenty-year-old Adam dreams of becoming a killer. Opportunity knocks when his mother’s boyfriend, Pete, finds him a job as a driver for Roy, a professional hit man about to carry out his last homicide, copying the technique of a famous serial killer to throw off the investigators. Everything goes according to plan, until a witness unexpectedly turns up: pretty, young Carly, who the killer and his henchman find themselves forced to eliminate. The hunt for the woman proves to be more difficult than planned and, above all, confirms how, in the world of crime, the hierarchy of the roles is often turned upside down.

“I chose an American pop art look. I’ve based a lot of it on American contemporary hyper realists, Richard Estes, John Baeder, and more classical modern American artists like Hopper and his painting Nighthawks. It’s almost like graphic art. It’s not a grim up north movie. It’s a little bit flashy, but the humour and feel is very British, even if it is stylised.”