AFLOAT
2016 · 2m · USA
Directed by Celia Rowlson-Hall
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Two men — one with a broken heart, one with a full heart — ride a train together; when they disembark, they begin to dance, the choreography becoming the sole language of their emotional states.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Rowlson-Hall is a filmmaker whose work insists on the body as the primary cinematic instrument; at two minutes, AFLOAT achieves a formal completeness that most features cannot match, and its choreographic vocabulary is unambiguously hers.
Two men, choreographic duet, no dialogue, Derek Lam fashion-film series. Rowlson-Hall is consistent — same director three entries in a row, same template. Diminishing returns.
Two men, one broken-hearted, one full-hearted, leaving a train and dancing — Rowlson-Hall and Andrew Droz Palermo letting choreography do the emotional speaking. Two minutes that feel like a complete poem.