Wednesday Morning Two A.M.

This short film from Lewis Klahr won a Tiger award at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2010. It is a seven minute short showing a woman who is missing her ex boyfriend and wondering when her next relationship will be, listening to the same heartbroken music we the audience are.

Klahr is a successful collagist of found paper, particularly comics, and other ephemera which he animates and usually sets to music. One of his strengths is an impeccable taste in music. This short is accompanied by the 1967 song "I'll never learn" from the Shangri-Las, which is played twice. The first play is accompanied by images that are more figurative, of our lonely blonde lady, and her red velvet phantom man, shown mostly in top hat, and shadow. The second play comes with more abstract images and seems meant to portray her perfumed limbo, and the clouds of love spoken of in the lyrics of the song (coloured mists, fog, a sea with bubbles are all referred to), or perhaps how she is seeing the wallpaper in her bedroom through tears.

The rose petals covering a key and a black star map ellipse puncturing a hole in the blue sky at the start of the short film are fine emotional effects hinting at treasured memory and love grief.