What Do We Have In Our Pockets? is a brief film adapted by director Goran Dukić from a short story by Etgar Keret, “Suddenly, A Knock at the Door.” The film, described as “A most unusual love story [that] unravels when the objects in a young man’s pockets come to life,” debuted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
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“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.” ~Virginia Woolf (via)
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye last week:
♦ The Horns of Elfland.
I’m starting off today’s post with sound. “Gravity” by Sara Bareilles is my current music obsession—meaning I have listened to this song, this song from 2009, over and over and over again ever since I heard it recently on an episode of Community (is this some kind of mental disorder?). Obsessed, people, obsessed!
“Drown” by Tora Fisher is a pretty wonderful video. According to Boing Boing, director Burke Heffner built the set over a swimming pool and sank it while they filmed.
As part of The Continuum short film series, Drew Mylrea directed this short, Lisa. It’s quite well done. Here’s the official description:
There is a new boom in the technology sector: Robotics. Humanoid robots have replaced most retail employees in major chains across the country. What sets these robots apart is how well their personalities are designed—how charming and helpful they are, how human they are perceived.
Few people in the world can design such a robot. It is an art—it requires a deep understanding of both humanity and technology. Our story focuses on one such individual: Anders Ohm.
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“Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that…. [H]ate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Also: “This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.” ~David Lynch (whose birthday was yesterday)
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye last week:
♦ Awesome Art.
From the series “I’m Not There” by PoL Úbeda Hervàs
The image above comes from a series of photographs titled “I’m Not There” by PoL Úbeda Hervàs, who describes the series thus:
How can we accept that we are changing?
How can we accept we hardly recognize ourselves in certain situations?
I am changing at this very moment of my life.
I do not react in the same ways I used to. I am surprised. Is that me?
These pictures are the way I see myself now.
My shadow is there but I erase myself because I don´t know who I am any longer.
The shoes remain only to make sure there is something more than… a shadow.
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Eric Ramberg and Jimmy Eriksson wrote and directed this pretty violent, very stylish short film. Memorize is set in 2027, when “everyone is implanted with a chip—the Memorize-chip. It records everything you see, a new system to fight crime. One unit controls the system. The SSU—Special Surveillance Unit.” I found the short evocative, and I liked the little details that showed the world-building at work.
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