These Matterless Things
2022 · 9m · Netherlands
Directed by Corinne Owens, Jason Jung
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
A melancholic, poetically written three-part short film series about a couple trying to come to terms with the repetition of their lives together, exploring the complexities of love and connection through vignettes of shared moments accompanied by piano.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Three vignettes of 'poetically written' couple-vignettes with a piano. The title is a confession.
A three-part poetic triptych with piano accompaniment on the repetitions of love — the structure is ambitious but the description leans heavily on 'beautiful' adjectives without specifying gesture. Promising in concept, unproven in execution.
A nine-minute triptych structured as three connected three-minute episodes paired with poetry and piano is an unusually formal architecture for what could be a sentimental subject. The structure itself is the artistic statement — whether the vignettes earn the framework is the open question.
Festivals
- LAB-1 Eindhoven 2022