The film is a portrayal of the stream of memory of Cait, a girl who tries to assimilate the sadness of a broken relationship. Her fantasies reflect despair and aggression. The landscape is filmed like a dream world; the surroundings are used as a metaphor for her feelings. She surrenders herself to her emotions and prepares for a definitive decision.The film has in common with the other New Director’s Shorts that it portrays an imaginary world, but it is less burlesque in character.
One of the most extreme and successful examples of the ‘new directors’ film. A surrealistic burlesque which in its exuberant insanity seems like a radical…
The film comprises a stream of symbolic, experimental images. On the soundtrack, Sylvia Plath is reading her Lady Lazarus. This makes the film more literary…