Future Memory
2022 · 1m · USA
Directed by Julissa Yasmeen Ramirez
Genres: experimental, romance
Tones: contemplative, sensual, tender
Two strangers fall into a brief romance across New York — trains, parks, sidewalks — caught almost entirely in Super 8 close-ups of hands. An electronic score carries the small gestures: hair, cigarettes, fingers laced together.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A romance told in 63 seconds of Super 8 hand close-ups. That's not a film — that's a thesis on what most romances waste their runtime on.
Wong Kar-wai's hand-textures distilled to ninety seconds of Super 8 fingertips — Ramirez understands that the gesture IS the romance. Small, complete, deeply right.
A 63-second Super 8 romance told almost entirely in close-ups of hands, with an electronic score doing the dramaturgy — that's a tight formal idea executed at the runtime it deserves. The brevity is the discipline.
Reviews
creates an intimate impression with nostalgic visuals and carefully crafted rhythm / tone