Andreas Hykade - Ring Of Fire

"Ring of Fire" (2000) is a short film by Andreas Hykade. For me this film is about beauty, how beauty survives in the world, desires, especially the desire for beauty that you cannot buy, but which may come to you if you are patient. If you are looking for it, all other pleasures are just substitutes till you find it. The quest is long, and falling is a very likely part of it as impatience is human. But beauty is like a caterpillar... part of its essence is freedom. If driven by need you grab it, you may break it. But once it is comfortable with you, it will grow into an eagle that can fly anywhere... It is also about innocence, something that is always tried in the impatient world, something you hide when you adapt, but the core of which will always be there, no matter how much dirt is attached to it. You just need someone or something that wipes that dirt off...