What does it mean!?

Colin West is an award-winning writer & director from a cul-de-sac in Ohio now based in Los Angeles & NYC.

His feature film credits include LINOLEUM starring Jim Gaffigan & Rhea Seehorn, which world premiered at SXSW Film Festival in 2022, and DOUBLE WALKER co-written by and starring Sylvie Mix, which was released in 2021.

His films have been screened internationally at festivals including SXSW, BFI London Film Festival, Fantasia, San Francisco International Film Festival, among many others. He was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Science in Cinema prize at SFIFF in 2022 and was an Annenberg Foundation MFA Fellow at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.

You can see the trailer for LINOLEUM by tapping the banner above.

Existential madness.

This is A Serious Man, this is Linoleum.

To spend six minutes of your film telling a story-within-a-story and to end it with “there is no point” is bold, to say the least.

A Serious Man takes some of the biggest swings in the Coen Brothers’ oeuvre and it’s such an inspiration.

This idea of searching for the answers and thinking someone actually has them is such a huge theme in Linoleum as well. Tony Shalhoub embodies the Serious Man puzzle piece found in Linoleum.