#these lands short film

[wolfsteax]

I'm currently working on a short horror film called "These Lands"!

I finished up the Hunter's model today.

[fashionlandscapeblog]

At Land (1944) - dir. Maya Deren

[gael-garcia]

"To a Land Unknown" by Mahdi Fleifel premieres at Cannes 2024 (Director's Fortnight section)

[the-casbah-way]

forbidden romance (scottish person x english person)

[thatcinemascreencapguy]

At Land (1944) directed by Maya Deren

[rrrauschen]

Brigitte Reiner, {1952} In jedem Land und zu Deiner Zeit (Anywhere - In Our Time)

[mariocki]

Nightbeast (1982)

"Listen, I've been thinking. I hate this idea of us running out of town when -"

"We're beaten, Jamie. Guns have no effect on that thing."

"Guns don't, I know that, but if we could hit that thing with twenty or thirty thousand volts of electricity we might be able to stop it!"

[lupismaris]

Tbh there's nothing quite like getting roped (pun intended) into watching a truly mediocre show that can only be described as a Trainwreck fueled by racism and abuse.

[fashionlandscapeblog]

At Land (1944) - dir. Maya Deren

[aidenwaites]

The way I wish I could link some of the short films that were shown the other night but alas,, everyone's decided to submit to festivals and thus nothing is available publicly

[filmbrainbmb]

New Projector Short! John Travolta is the Sheriff who discovers he is in a Mob Land, but this attempt at a No Country for Old Men-style drama is just a criminally dull Geezer Teaser.

[pacingmusings]

Seen (again) in 2024:

At Land (Maya Deren), 1944

[literary-musing]

La La Land

Warning: this post contains spoilers for La la land and even if you don’t care for spoilers you really should watch it before reading this

I’ve had thoughts ™️ about la la land ever since I first saw it a couple of years ago but I think I’m gonna finally go out and put some of them down here. Note that I haven’t completely sorted out everything I think about this movie and so if any of my ideas feel a little unclear, that’s why.

La la land, in my opinion, is a film about love. But it handles love in a very delicate and interesting way.

The movie has a very archetypical buildup from start to a couple minutes before finish. Two people fall in love, they support each other’s passions, there’s a bit of a falling out yada yada— now don’t get me wrong, that’s not to say that the movie is a bore up till the end. The film has a lot of other very interesting elements that can be dissected but for now I’ll focus on the ending.

To recap, After Mia gets the part, she moves away to France to film the movie and moves on with her life. Sebastian does the same in LA. When Mia sees Seb again at the jazz club, a sequence plays out showing what could’ve been if Sebastian had moved with Mia.

Love. I think the film commentates on how love manifests in more ways than one, a concept often lost in traditional love stories. Love doesn’t have to mean living and growing old together, love doesn’t have to mean marrying each other. If anything the greatest form of love is arguably being able to let go of the other for the sake of their happiness. Essentially, finding love in the happiness of your lover.

This is something that’s reflected very nicely in La La Land. Seb loved Mia enough to let her go and vice versa. I like to think that they both knew that that would be the last time they might ever see each other but they found love in the comfort of knowing that the other would lead a happy life being able to realise their dreams. This leads me to my next thought.

Love (again?). The kind of love I just talked about was romantic love. I believe that La La Land talks about more than just romantic love. It’s a love story through and through. It doesn’t forget that there’s more kinds of love than just the romantic kind. Mia and seb both loved each other and I’ve already talked about how their love for each other was so great that they were willing to express it in its ultimate form. By letting go. But why did they have to let go?

Art! Seb and Mia both loved each other but they loved their passion, their craft, even more. And I think they both understood that about each other. Seb knew that if he tried to go with Mia he would have to give up with love for jazz and he’d never be able to realise his dream of having his own jazz club. He also knew that he couldn’t possibly ask Mia to stay back because this was her big break, her opportunity to grow into the actress she’d always wanted to be. Likewise, Mia understood the same about seb and his dreams.

Letting each other go is the only way they could express their love for each other as well as their craft. In the end when Seb looks at Mia, I think they both understand that while their lives are no longer intertwined directly with each other, their love for each other and their craft still remains unyielding.

Fin.

My thoughts about this movie aren’t as clear as I’d like them to be, all I know is that I really love it. I might edit this post in the future to talk about how seb and Mia are both figuratively and literally in “la la land” throughout the film and how that affects the narrative.

Since my thoughts aren’t still clear, I might even edit what I’ve already written but for now this is it!

[issela-santina]

Hyacinth from the short film Black Rainbow is a mood

Hyacinth and her little brother Itan ride on a wagon driven by a carabao across the mountains somewhere in rural Zambales. Hyacinth looks nonchalantly at Itan who takes a good long look at the surroundings. Both of them are Sambal — one of several Aeta (black people indigenous to the Philippines) groups living and protecting their ancestral lands in central Luzon.

to elaborate:

she was asked in class for a color of the rainbow and she answered “black” and even defended her answer

what does she want to be when she grows up? “a goddess”

literally the most accessible physical help to learning the computer that her little brother can get, and she gladly takes it on, with a stick

demands that her brother make his prayer to Apo Namalyari a bit more specific

I'm not Aeta ok but as an annoying older sister I understand

honestly if you saw this short you will love both of them

I hope she and her people doing ok in real life, at least in little ways because the fight for these mountains never stopped with granting titles

[olympain]

No one will hurt you anymore.

[junkyarddemento]

NIGHT LAND

When nothing but ash covers the daylight, you know things are really bad. As a young couple flee in their car, we, the audience, start to piece together what is happening and also, what's lurking in the dark to get them! The production design and camera work, really help build cool visuals here.