I BEGAN TO WISH.....

by Julie MURRAY
2003 / 16mm / color / silent / 1S / 5' 00




The sea sucks the seed back into the ocean, the flowers fold like umbrellas, shoots recoil into hiding, in seeds that shrink. The plants accelerate their tremble and wobble and glass unbreaks all around them. Strawberries blanch and tomatoes grow pale. The father, leering, holds forth a flower and suddenly his smile fades to awful seriousness. In an odd concentrated ritual the father and son carefully tip over all the flower pots, laying the plants to rest and it is in this end, around the time he figures the flowers are talking to him, that the son wishes his father had killed him. – JM

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distribution format 16mm
screen 1,37 - Standard (single screen)
speed 24 fps
sound silent
original language English
rental fee 26,00 €

distribution format Digital file on server (FHD)
screen 1,37 - Standard (single screen)
speed 23,976 fps
sound silent
original language English
rental fee 26,00 €