Lines
2015 · 5m · USA
Directed by Sasha Gransjean
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, tense
A short film exploring how personal space becomes confrontational when a woman feels trapped by social pressure yet cannot fully separate herself from the forces she finds most objectionable.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Gransjean uses the ensemble not for coverage but as a spatial argument — 'lines' is both the film's structure and its theme, and the choreographic approach to constraint feels more like dance film than narrative short in the best possible way.
Six-performer ensemble externalizing interior state — the African Movie Academy nomination is interesting, but the synopsis reads like a thesis statement, not a film.
Sasha Gransjean externalizes an interior state through six bodies as choreography — the conceit is promising but the page-summary gives me only the description, not enough sense of the actual rendering. Cautiously curious.