Riley

Production Designer & Costume Designer · Short Film · 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO5z07fvDFk

Overview

In a future devastated by extreme heat, wind, and fire, young Riley and her father, Dutch, survive as nocturnal scavengers sheltering in an underground basement. Their daily ritual of opening a battered mystery can provides a fleeting moment of joy, until an unexpected visitor changes their lives.

Contribution

Matthew Solomon served as both Production Designer and Costume Designer, developing the environment and character wardrobes as one cohesive visual world. The distressed clothing, improvised supplies, weathered surfaces, and practical survival details ground the film’s dystopian setting while revealing how Riley and Dutch have adapted to life underground.

The basement sanctuary balances hardship with traces of family life, allowing the production design and costumes to communicate history, scarcity, protection, and the relationship between father and daughter without relying on exposition.