Killing Time at Home

Isolated from the outside world, all that’s left to do is kill time. For some, the only way to make friends is to grow them. A hypochondriac living in isolation orders a ‘disposable friend’, Zinc Dude, from an online service. The creature is initially frightened, but as they play Zinc Dude grows to trust the man, but is his trust misplaced…?

There is an unusual amount of detail in this 2D drawn animation, much of which can only be seen when the film is paused.