The Mark On The Wall
2024 · 4m · Mexico
Directed by Anderson Wright
Genres: essay film, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal, whimsical
An adaptation of Virginia Woolf's first published short story, in which a woman's contemplation of an unidentified mark on her wall spirals into a stream-of-consciousness exploration of memory, identity, and time, filmed in Mexico City with a contemporary visual language.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Adapting Woolf's stream-of-consciousness by making the editing itself think in associative leaps rather than explaining them — four minutes that actually understand what they're adapting.
A four-minute Woolf adaptation that uses stream-of-consciousness as editing logic rather than literary reference — ambitious in concept, though Meshes of the Afternoon set a bar adaptation rarely clears.
Adapting Woolf's first published story by using stream-of-consciousness as actual editing logic rather than narration — at four minutes that's an ambitious formal swing. The premise is the whole gamble, and I want to see if the cuts feel like the prose.
Reviews
An impeccably stylized short film written and directed by Anderson Wright plunges viewers into one woman's inventive search for reason and rationality.
Festivals
- One Screen / The One Club 2024, Winner