It Felt Good to Have This Pain
2013 · 15m
Directed by Matt Latham
Genres: drama, horror, romance
Tones: dark, melancholic, surreal
A deathly dark story of unrequited love between two women, told with astonishing visual flair — slow-shutter-speed rain, lightning storms, ghosts that look like ghosts — balanced against documentary realism.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
NoBudge called it 'a little unusual for NoBudge.' On a platform where Roman emperors hunt eunuchs and feet fight each other. THAT is the endorsement.
Slow-shutter rain, lightning storms, ghosts that look like ghosts — Latham's visual flair paired with documentary realism about queer unrequited love is the kind of stylistic risk that earns the unease NoBudge themselves flagged as unusual.
Slow-shutter-speed rain, real lightning storms, ghosts that look like ghosts — and the NoBudge curators themselves flagging it as unusually horror-leaning for them. Visual flair plus that documentary-realism shy-8-year-old monologue is a piercing combination.