Lou-Lou Lives Here

Hazel Grian's short film LOU LOU LIVES HERE opens with a tracking shot of an electricity pylon in the countryside . The photography is black and white and grainy which I suppose is an artistic decision on the part of the director since it is admittedly atmospheric . We , the audience , then see a young girl in a summer dress lying motionless on the ground with the sound of a helicopter in the near distance . Has she been involved in an accident ? Is she alive ? Is she dead ? She's not dead because she moves and walks along a road where she sees a dead rabbit

I'm sorry to say but I found this short slightly confusing . When I saw the dead rabbit I thought this might be the type of story that points out what an ugly place the countryside can sometimes be . Come on how many school trips for children have been cut short because the children are traumatised that Harry Hedgehog has been found freshly splattered all over the road ? But this isn't actually the subtext . To be honest I'm not entirely sure what it is about and the abstract images and noises didn't help any further