drifting into time passages

Yeah, I think Al Stewart would have said that we were doing that tonight. I had actually told the bfe that the theme of the films included in this Fliss Film Festival, Dos, was time passages. As you will see, they all deal with a span of time betwixt now and then.
One reminder to self: do not show films which are mystical to the physicist. Point 1: he's a magician, thereby prone to dismiss such things. Point 2: he's a physicist, making him doubly prone to dismiss any concepts dressed in supernatural meaning.
Ah, well.
Next time, right?
Meanwhile, for tonight's showing of kickstarter rewards, I had four physical copies and one to watch online. I again asked him to set then up in the order he wished to view them, with me giving brief intros.
So, here goes!
The first to be viewed contained the briefest elapsed period of time (only 14 years) and concerned the return of an errant mother to her daughter's home. "Curse of the Sunset Starlet", with its retro bookends of old photos, was beautiful and mystical and featured sunset moths, among other lovely winged insects. I knew within the first ten minutes that he was not happy with it. Drats. Its running rime is 25 minutes. At the end, he said he felt as though he had been beat around his head with butterflies.
It really made no difference that the film had been a winner at several film festivals in the world and had even made it into consideration for an Academy Award. Nope, that made no impact on him, it was not his cup of tea at all.
Next, please!
"Red Thread" considers a political activist after thiry years in prison. The film now carries the subtitle "The Prisoner and the Painter and has an operatic score and lyrical interludes. This was more to his liking, as there was no supernatural element in it and it was straightforward. What you see is what there is, with no allusion to forces beyond our ken at work. I think, also, that he rather liked that the prisoner had no remorse for her acts of terrorism. That's okay; she still has 45 years left on her sentence in Bedford Hills Prison.
The third film was chosen because it teleported us back in time to January of 1945, the story of a flyguy trapped behind enemy lines when his plane went down. For "12:15 Sunday", I don't own a hard copy, but I do have access to the film on VIMEO. [Sadly, I cannot give you the private link to the full-length video.]
This film, he did like. With its method of cutting back and forth between now, with the old man telling his tale, and then, when the even occurred, interest was guaranteed! It also segued quite nicely into the next film, also featuring a veteran of World War II.
Back to the television for this fourth film! The time is now, I told the bfe, but the setting is grade school, with an elderly veteran accompanying his grandson for a session of "show and tell". "Chalk Talk", I had also said, was a very sweet film that I really like, too. I think Chris Durenburger has a fine eye and a fine heart - the bfe agreed, even though he favors film with unhappy endings. I think this one's finale may have been unresolved enough to still be quite pleasing for him.
It probably should be noted that these last two films were made by local film students. Both films were honored with SCADemy Awards, too. "12:15 Sunday" won for Best Undergraduate Documentary, whereas "Chalk Talk" was awarded the Best Undergraduate Narrative. They took home other awards, too. Pretty fine achievements!
Oops! I got a little sidetracked there, didn't I?
On to the fifth, and final, film of the Fliss Film Festival, Dos.
As I had told him, this deals with an enormous span of time, millenia in the past. It's also quite beautiful to watch. "Genesis: Air, Water, Life" tells the story of the evolution of creatures from the water to the land, using dance and music. Madame Rex, aka Rachel Strickland, transforms a container of water onstage into a petri dish full of beings struggling to explore and be free. I very much love this film! He rather enjoyed it, too, and I think it was more than just the thirteen-year-old boy watching the nearly naked, and wet, pretty girl.
(smile)
After all, this line-up of films was his choice.
I would like to think he was mindful of my likes, as with the first FFF.
Yes, that is the story I will tell myself!
If you have another version, write it in yer own blog!
(smile!)
Meanwhile, I need to go through the films not yet shown and see if there is just one more Fliss Film Festival in the works, or possible two Especially if I can obtain a few of the others that are owed but not yet received...
Later, 'tater!