I Began to Wish …..
I Began to Wish .....
Julie Murray: `The sea sucks the seed back into the ocean, the flowers fold like umbrellas, shoots recoil into hiding, in seeds that shrink. The plants accelerate their tremble and wobble and glass unbreaks all around them. Strawberries blanch and tomatoes grow pale. The father, leering, holds forth a flower and suddenly his smile fades to awful seriousness. In an odd concentrated ritual the father and son carefully tip over all the flower pots, laying the plants to rest and it is in this end, around the time he figures the flowers are talking to him, that the son wishes his father had killed him.’
Also in this combined programme
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They Say
Michele Smith: `They Say consists of two reels of heavily edited (frame by frame) and overlaid 16mm film. It was then intercut with the grainy… -
Barbara’s Blindness
Joyce Weiland: `A collage film. We started out with a dull film about a little girl named Mary and ended up with something that made…
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2003
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
