Bury Your Fish
2022 · 15m · USA
Directed by Emma Josephson
Tones: contemplative, dark, melancholic, surreal
An isolated, directionless young woman named Sonia begins taking life cues from a mysterious window light a block away that communicates in Morse code, and must confront whether the phenomenon is real guidance or a sign of her own fracturing mental stability.
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The scouts
Isolated post-pandemic woman takes orders from Morse code in a window, deliberately unresolved. The ambiguity could be exquisite or could be a thesis-film evasion of writing an ending.
Josephson refuses to resolve whether the Morse-code light is supernatural guidance or fracturing mental stability — radical narrative openness in the post-pandemic isolation register. A confident formal commitment.
Morse-code-from-a-flashing-light as central narrative device with the supernatural-vs-mental-illness question deliberately unresolved — that ambiguity commitment requires real discipline at 15:27. Whether it lands depends entirely on Sonia's performance restraint.
Reviews
An esoteric journey into the annals of the mind. The film, big and bold yet surprisingly contained. There's something about this film that holds tight and doesn't let go — even after its fifteen-minute runtime has long expired.
Festivals
- Atlanta Film Festival 2022
- Beyond Fest 2022
- Dances With Films 2022
- Nightmares Film Festival 2022
- Local Sightings Film Festival 2022