American films — both fiction and doc — are dominated by a tendency to tell you what you are seeing; often they tell you even why you are seeing what you are seeing. And it doesn’t stop there. Many filmmakers feel compelled to even tell you haw you should feel about what you are seeing. We have lost the opportunity of using confusion as a narrative engine. We diminish our capacity for joy in the chaos. Dang. What a shame. Truly.
Well, FLYING LOTUS: Until The Quite Comes” (Kahil Joseph) suffers none of that. Walk into this dream. Leave knowing what you may know yet recognize.
Flying Lotus – “Until The Quiet Comes” from WHAT MATTERS MOST on Vimeo.
This was just one of the 12 really strong short films curated for the recent Short Fest presented by The Wrap and curated by MIke Plante.
