King Baby

King Baby is a darkly comic feature film about a 'King' and a 'Servant' who live, completely isolated, in the crumbling ruins of a castle surrounded by thick forest. Two contemporary men have rejected the modern world in favour of a life where they can say and do whatever they want. They play out a ludicrous daily cycle of pomp and ceremony with a punishingly unequal power dynamic.

When the King dreams about a beguiling woman, he orders the Servant to create a mannequin Queen from the wood of a tree. The King marries the mannequin Queen and all seems better than ever in this strange dystopian Kingdom. Both men treat this wooden object as though she were 'real'.

Enchanted by his own creation, the Servant develops an ardent love for the Queen whilst the brutish King begins to treat her increasingly badly. Plagued by paranoia and disturbing nightmares of emasculation, the King relinquishes his crown to the Servant in a bid to regain a sense of peace. As a puppet leader, the Servant is still beholden to the King's power until he sees an opportunity to improve the Kingdom and emancipate the Queen. He revolutionises the Kingdom with a new set of forward-thinking and liberal decrees. The power has truly shifted, but not necessarily for the better.

What ensues is a whirlwind of isolation, madness, and murderous megalomania that puts two very, very different types of masculinity under scrutiny.