Desc: How to Pass the Time: Directed by Robert Frenay, Kevin Sullivan. With Andrew Dawe-Collins, Tony Semanik, Kevin Sullivan, Eva Rosenwald. Brendan Scannell is an isolated young man taking care of a large house with a mysterious machine in the basement. He has vivid dreams of a loud sun and a threatening man knocking at the door. These visions send him on a surreal adventure into the outside world where he must make sense of his past and fractured sense of self.