Oscar-Qualified Short ‘Life Goes On’ Puts a Hospice in a Time Loop

Oscar-Qualified Short ‘Life Goes On’ Puts a Hospice in a Time Loop

Writer-directors Kat Butterfield and Daniel Audritt say their first short film, Life Goes On, is now qualified for consideration at the 99th Academy Awards and is BAFTA-qualifying. The dark comedy is set in a hospice. Bill, a patient played by David Bradley, lives the same day again and again. The film uses that loop to talk about routine, isolation, regret and what still counts as joy when time is short. Butterfield drew on work in a Lancashire…