Sunbeams falling through openings in a cave roof onto a colonnaded pool

A short film by Domonic Smith

Rise

Bethesda: The Amputee

Logline

Zadok, an investigator for the synagogue, comes to the Pool of Bethesda as a cynic. Cricket, a legless man who lives among the sick by the water, tells him about the man they called Thirty-Eight, who waited thirty-eight years for the waters to move, until a stranger named Jesus arrived.

“You a seeker? Or a cynic?”Cricket

Work in progress

Rough Cut

Rough cut. Picture, sound and color are not final.