Lily Sullivan in 'Monolith'.

One actor, one location: Matt Vesely on the making of ‘Monolith’

At SXSW in March, someone asked director Matt Vesely a question about his debut feature Monolith: “If you had more money, what would have been different about this film?”

Vesely’s answer: “We would have made a different film altogether; it was just so designed for [a low budget].”

A sci-fi horror, Monolith stars Lily Sullivan as a headstrong and disgraced journalist whose investigative podcast uncovers a strange artifact, an alien conspiracy and the lies at the heart of her own story. The f...