Fragile
2019 · 10m · USA
Directed by Kearston Hawkins-Johnson
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: melancholic, surreal, whimsical
A masked ballerina drifts through abandoned buildings and city sidewalks, dancing past skateboarders and oversized exercise balls. Eggs crack, Kit-Kats snap, and the whole thing wobbles between melancholy and silliness.
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The scouts
Masked ballerina, abandoned buildings, a Kit-Kat as metaphor — this is exactly the kind of unembarrassed weirdness most student work runs screaming from.
A paper-bag-masked ballerina wandering abandoned lots with Kit-Kats as punctuation — the DIY Pina cousin works in flashes but the symbolism is doing a lot of unpaid labor. Promising rather than fully formed.
Masked ballerina improvising through abandoned buildings and skateboarder crowds with breaking eggs and Kit-Kats as punctuation — that wobble between melancholy and silliness is hard to sustain. Lives on whether Hawkins-Johnson trusts the silliness.
Reviews
It's a light & simple student short made with a spontaneous spirit and told through quirky, expressive movements.