A collaborative short music film by National College of Art and Design and the Royal Irish Academy of Music
“Thank you for your call. Your call is very important to us. Please hold.”

Set to RIAM musical hold tone, Please Hold is a cinematic short film-meets-music-video that explores the strange in-between space of waiting - somewhere between the absurd and the all-too-familiar. Across a patchwork of stationary shots, we see a series of disconnected characters in strange, mundane, or surreal locations all caught in a shared limbo: left on hold.

Visually stylized with blue-green tones, punctuated by the bright red of a rotary phone, the film plays with the tension between stillness and restlessness. Characters drift between apathy and agitation - doing everything and nothing while waiting for something (anything) to happen.
A study in tone, timing, and timeless frustration.

“Your current wait time is 45 minutes.”