A Million Eyes
2020 · 25m
Directed by Richard Raymond
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, sensual, tender
A love letter to painting with light, this fluid and beautiful short moves like a river through images crafted with a cinematographer's reverence.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A love letter to light is exactly the kind of earnest, painterly thing that usually puts me to sleep—but Raymond's refusal to let narrative muscle the visuals around keeps it from collapsing into pure aesthetics, which is its own small rebellion.
A masterclass in restraint and visual syntax; the film moves like a river precisely because Raymond understands how to let compositional choices do the narrative work, situating itself squarely in the lineage of contemplative cinema that prizes the image over plot.
The decision to let the cinematography *be* the coming-of-age story rather than illustrate it—trusting that the light and color shifts carry the emotional weight—is the specific structural choice that elevates what could've been a student film into something genuinely felt.
Reviews
Richard Raymond's A Million Eyes moves with the fluidity and magnificence of a river, never letting its audience feel conscious of time. Each frame is stunning, and utilised with a poetic sensibility.