Halloween at Swan Lake (Rabbit Well) - Review
Tonight is the Night! And what a Night…
Halloween at Swan Lake (Rabbit Well Episode 7) is an episode where the most absurd and unexpected love at first sight make the difference.
Created, directed and narrated\sung by the bubbly amateur animator I-Jien Jane Kou, this super short film contains disguise, love and madness.
A small comedy where the protagonists - super hero Frog and super hero Ugly Duck - experience Halloween night in the name of fun.
The drawings are very cute and the colors are vivid!
Two minutes may seem a very short time... but it's enough to fall in love!
The New Immigrants-Hong Kongers - Review
A new city, a new life.
A challenge not to be underestimated the one that Vivian Tsang tells us about in her short documentary The New Immigrants- Hong Kongers.
Make a life change is perhaps one of the most difficult thing a human being can face, but Tsang immerses us in the new reality of people who have decided to leave the chaos and frenzy of Hong Kong preferring the slow pace of Manchester, Uk.
For some it was a dream, for others an opportunity.
Thus we discover through the eyes of these people the city, its customs, its history and all the cultural and social differences that affect the new inhabitants.
Fascinating and very interesting, this short film shows us how a big change, despite the initial inevitable difficulties, is a panacea for the soul of those who have the courage to take risks.
LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution - Review
The human mind has always asked big questions but everything becomes complicated when it comes to find the answers.
How does our mind really work? Where do our thoughts, our fears and our social aversions come from? How so many secrets live inside us without our knowledge?
We are an infinite universe of mysteries and question marks that are difficult to explain but Espen Jan Folmo and Nini Caroline Skarpaas Myhrvold - thanks to their feature film LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution - manage to give us a rather figurative idea of how our inner part works and how our mind itself manages to be our strength and our weakness too.
How do human beings change while everything around them constantly changes? How do perceptions, certainties and phobias arise?
All this and much more in an interesting and extremely necessary documentary especially in a historical tempos so saturated with uncertainties and frustration.
Under the One-Time Sky - Review
Sometimes the past comes back to help you face the present.
Two childhood friends meet after years of distance and silence.
Dwight is a successful young man who can boast an independent life and a fulfilling and profitable job; Christine, on the other hand, looks fragile, surrendered and trapped in the same place, in the same house, in the same backyard... the backyard where she played as a girl and that seems to have sucked all her energy, all her desire to live.
After the typical initial pleasantries, the two begin to really talk, to really question each other about their life and start to remember the past.
Something obscene and unspeakable happened to Christine in that little backyard but no one, not even Dwight, was able to help her and to believe her.
Old memories and a truth kept hidden for too many years spring out of their souls and everything seems to collapse...
But sometimes are the earthquakes of the soul that make a life flourish again from its own ashes.
Written and directed by the talented Susan Jennifer Polese - filmmaker, journalist and mental health crisis counselor - and produced by Michelle Concha, Under the One-Time Sky, is a short film full of meaning and feeling, not only for the dramatic theme it deals with - rape - but also for how it is treated: sensitively, respectfully and honestly.
Thanks also to the excellent performance of the two actors - Danica Lee Clauser and Ted Gibson - the film shows us with simplicity two lives in comparison, where multiple feelings mix and clash to unearth a secret buried for too long.