auxanna
drama, short
2026
digital / 2:13
A brief conversation in December 2024 between long-term friends and collaborators, director PATRICK TAYLOR and director of photography ADAM SINGODIA, reignited the ongoing concept of shooting reactive, improvisational short films abroad. By January 2025 we pounced on a Eurostar flash sale to Paris, and by March were shooting two films in two days, pushing ourselves creatively and embracing limitations, whilst maintaining our shared DIY ethos to make something ‘just for us’, and to just do it.
AUXANNA explores falsehood and the quiet performance of presenting a desired self. It follows a bored young cleaner who, while working for her parents’ company, invites an old friend over only to pretend the home is hers — a fragile fiction that unravels as her friend reflects on their time together.
Shot in Paris without a script and shaped through improvisation, this youthful Gen Z film reflects the personas we adopt in social interactions, echoing both the curated and idealised selves we choose to display online and offline.
Starring:
Auxanna Fonteneau
Maëlle Delor
Director, Editor: Patrick Taylor
Director of Photography: Adam Singodia
Stylist: France Hofnung
Casting: Vera Salomon
Model Agency: Just Faces
Colour: Nielsen Bohl
Colour Producer: Hannah George
Colour House: Selected Works
Original Score: Idra, Francesca Pavesi
Sound Design, Mix: Matt Valentine
Audio Producer: Carla Thomas
Audio Post-Production: 750mph
Voice Over: Maëlle Delor
WePresent:
Holly Fraser
Alex Kahl
PRESS:
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