I have recently received a link to the short film "The External World" from David O'Reilly. This little short is a continuous flow of thoughts and events that seem to be connected by a piano concert for which a boy is preparing at the beginning. For me, this is about everyday little frustrations beginning with the boy's torment from his perfectionist piano teacher, and moving on to those experienced by those who are to become his audience. I had this feeling of everyday friction and personal tragedies mixed up with the ignorance necessary to survive, all the way through the short. Except for the very end, where that piano concert, itself an offspring of such stress, seems to bring some calmness to the rush of the world. I then went on to check out O'Reilly's website, whose name was somehow familiar. I think now probably because of Future Shorts. He has a short distributed there, which is made free, and therefore comes with the explicit request of its director that it be embedded as many times as possible (being the only way to distribute it). I am more than willing to oblige, since I liked that short very much. "Please Say Something", is about those questions we never get an answer for in life. Some of them are even impossible to put into words. The feeling when you hope for comfort from someone important about one of these questions, but he/she remains silent. They have the same questions and the same lack of answers. Even god seems to be mystified... And while we suppress these feelings, and deal with the everyday rush, the routine of our existence may just suddenly come to an end.
Sunday, 20 February 2011
David O'Reilly
I have recently received a link to the short film "The External World" from David O'Reilly. This little short is a continuous flow of thoughts and events that seem to be connected by a piano concert for which a boy is preparing at the beginning. For me, this is about everyday little frustrations beginning with the boy's torment from his perfectionist piano teacher, and moving on to those experienced by those who are to become his audience. I had this feeling of everyday friction and personal tragedies mixed up with the ignorance necessary to survive, all the way through the short. Except for the very end, where that piano concert, itself an offspring of such stress, seems to bring some calmness to the rush of the world. I then went on to check out O'Reilly's website, whose name was somehow familiar. I think now probably because of Future Shorts. He has a short distributed there, which is made free, and therefore comes with the explicit request of its director that it be embedded as many times as possible (being the only way to distribute it). I am more than willing to oblige, since I liked that short very much. "Please Say Something", is about those questions we never get an answer for in life. Some of them are even impossible to put into words. The feeling when you hope for comfort from someone important about one of these questions, but he/she remains silent. They have the same questions and the same lack of answers. Even god seems to be mystified... And while we suppress these feelings, and deal with the everyday rush, the routine of our existence may just suddenly come to an end.
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