juliussmit

A visceral energy pushes through this film as a juxtaposition of troubled histories bubble below the surface of mental and physical landscapes. This is a raw film with not only a brooding intensity around it but also containing an undercurrent of uncertainty, distrust and menace. Polarities of alienation and longing, love and sorrow permeate the principal characters in a setting which affords degrees of anonymity and distance. The film's spare and enigmatic aura gives space to the various relationships where time and past events impact on the present. It breaks boundaries and sets up new markers in creating situations where pursuit and emotion collide to produce fragile new directions. To ask whether this film works in a traditional sense is to miss the point. Here is a created work which punches at the margins, reminding the audience that there are still new ways to tell a story.