This is the second feature from Sandro Mendes. A 25 mins lenght short film, also filmed in digital format.
Statement by Sandro Mendes, director and writer:
“What interests me more than capturing the transformations of a character, is to expose it’s own perceptions, thoughts and feelings experienced in a non linear narrative. In this short film, the character rejects the surrounding world and becomes the world. Unconsciously Samara, the main character, creates an imaginary safe ground for her fragility towards reality, therefore she will conduct the time and space of her quest, in a search for the balance of her personality.”
Synopsis
A woman isolated in her apartment, becomes a victim of a severe sequence of bipolar disorder episodes. This condition was triggered by the ending of a long term relationship. Left in the edge of pain and loneliness, she incarnates the identity of her ex-partner, simultaneously blocking any subconscious guilt complex of failure.
This swap of personalities condemned her to a worst conflict; she still bares the feeling of being abandoned, in this case by her "true self". This misinterpretation comes as a result from her illness, where she assumes as truth, an unrealistic ideal situation, where she would be the one putting an end to the relationship, leaving all the pain and loneliness inflicted to her ex-partner.
And while assuming her ex-partner personality, she becomes obsessed to find the woman who is gone from her/“his” life. Consequently, the hallucination episodes become more frequent and vivid, making her lose total grip of reality. Her delusions take her to different places where finally she, being "him", sees her true self walking amongst the crowd, appearing as a mysterious woman in a red dress.
The chase to find the woman in red starts...
For more information about the shooting process as well a few still shots from the short film, please check for ABSURD Office on Facebook.
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