The first film in a series of summer projects, “Dwell” is my experiment with time, space and surrealism.
Starring Celina Potwardowski.
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The first film in a series of summer projects, “Dwell” is my experiment with time, space and surrealism.
Starring Celina Potwardowski.
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Hey Matt, if I enjoyed bodily contact with people I would hug the sh*t out of you. Y’know what, I just might anyway. This is a beautiful piece of work. Simple but informative as well as imaginative. I love the way you used space and architecture as characters within the film. The emptiness and the textures on the stone gave life to these matters that possibly were a separate storyline in themselves to with whom Celina wandered into and became trapped. Ever hear the saying “If these walls could talk?” Well sometimes you might not want to hear what they have to say.
As i hate to make comparisons — but that is how we like to judge artworks — this film is reminiscent of the surrealism depicted in films by Kubrick and Lynch and even Bergman. You have cited those directors as influences upon you as you mold your own style and you, sir, use many of those techniques brilliantly. The use of silence as a means to create uncertainty really left me with a sense that maybe Celina was in a battle with or escaping something we could not see. A as the viewer I attempted to form an idea in my mind but was so compelled by the absence of story that I had to watch it again and conceived a completely different idea.
Bravo! This is truly inspiring, seriously… very clean and professional. I will stop now and watch it again so that we can talk later. I would actually like to have a sit down with you and discuss this film. Thanks for posting it on the site.