Claire Harris is a young girl at the swimming pool who is apprehensive about diving from the high-board. She returns to the dressing room as dry as a bone and watches the other folks whilst trying to hold her breath, imagining - as does the camerawork - that she is indeed under the water. Now sitting poolside she looks at the water and at those unafraid of it's now quiet and undisturbed waters. Can she overcome her fears? There's some good underwater photography here and it's quite a poignant look at a phobia and it's associated humiliation, with no dialogue and a simple score accompanying....
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a little girl
Kirpianuscus4 March 2022
A great short film for recognizible reactions, for gentle manner to explore them, for music and for the lovely - poetic end. A little girl, a public pool, her fear to jump in water, her refuge and a magnificent consolation as cure against bad states of day.
Admirable music, seductive close up . And charming wisdom to remind small things, familiar, so familiar for many of us.
Admirable music, seductive close up . And charming wisdom to remind small things, familiar, so familiar for many of us.
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