Synopsis of Wednesday 2:45 pm
inspired by the poem, Dolor, by Theodore Roethke.

Wednesday 2:45 pm explores the uncanny aspects of an average office interview, when the most ordinary of experiences becomes frightening and strange.

At the edges of reality, set in the daily operations of Globocorp, the mundane becomes inhuman and the inanimate takes on life.  When a young man interviews for a clerical job with a large corporation, he stares at opportunity for advancement and sees an oppressive life of routine.  The job applicant unwittingly discovers a terrifying altered reality in a seemingly mundane office environment.   The methodical secretary nearly suffocates from boredom as she collates papers in her head, while the boss whittles away at the moral fabric of the would-be yes-man.

Dolor
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight,
All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,
Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard,
The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher,
Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma,
Endless duplicaton of lives and objects.
And I have seen dust from the walls of institutions,
Finer than flour, alive, more dangerous than silica,
Sift, almost invisible, through long afternoons of tedium,
Dropping a fine film on nails and delicate eyebrows,
Glazing the pale hair, the duplicate grey standard faces.

“Pencils really are sad.”   - Filmmaker H. G. Solomon

Wednesday 2:45 pm was created with support from Arts NSW, AMR Interactive, Artspace (Sydney), Gunnery Studios (Sydney), and the Appliance and Limb Centre (Sydney).  Current projects by HG Solomon are being developed with the support of the Royal Norwegian General Consulate, NRK television (Norway), Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (Norway), and The East Bay Community Foundation (California).