Fizz

“In the dark and scary depths of a subway, one young man finds fear has a new name: FIZZ.” Jemaine Clement (pre-Flight of the Conchords fame) is the young man who faces up to a sentient soda machine in this short from Jason Stutter. Made for $2000 and filmed over two wintry Wellington nights, Fizz screened at festivals including Locarno, New York, and Clermont-Ferrand. Stutter would successfully repeat the combo of dark wit and dangerous appliance in his Careful with that … series; Clement starred in Stutter’s debut feature Tongan Ninja (2002).

[Fizz was] shot on less than three rolls of borrowed film stock on the coldest day of the winter of 1998.

– Jason Stutter, from the Fizz press kit

Key Cast & Crew

Jason Stutter

Writer, Producer, Director

Narelle Ahrens

As: Street Kid

Rod Fransham

Actor

Jemaine Clement

As: Chased Man

David Donaldson

Composer

Steve Roche

Composer